8

Late last night I was writing about the brilliance of stars against a black night sky. This morning Psalm 8 has me thinking of them again. Such a magnificent psalm that lifts God to His proper place and does its best to put us in ours. I am just going to throw some quotes from the Treasury of David in here today. I've been lifted and humbled this morning in my own meditation and I hope that as you read this psalm you are as well.

We gave you but a feeble image of our comparative insignifigance, when we said that the glories of an extended forest would suffer no more from the fall of a single leag, than the glories of this extended universe would suffer though the globe we tread upon, and all that it inherits, should dissolve - Dr. Chalmers

Meditation fits for humiliation...Night was made for man to rest in. But when I cannot sleep, may I, with the Psalmist, entertain my waking with good thoughts. Not to use them as opium, to incite my corrupt nature to slumber, ut to bolt out bad thoughts, wich otherwise would possess my soul. - Thomas Fuller

It is a marvelous thing, that God thinks upon men, and remembers them continually. - John Calvin

Oh the grandeur and littleness, the excellence and the corruption, the majesty and meanness of man - Pascal