These are the days...

Psalm 8

¹O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

³When I consider thy heavens, the work of

thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

⁴What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

⁵For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

⁶Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

⁷All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

⁸The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the

seas.

⁹O LORD our Lord, how excellent

is thy name in all the

earth!

We are watching the video series "Planet Earth" again this winter. I am always amazed at our God when I watch these videos. From the grandiose to microscopic, our planet is teeming with life that testifies to the greatness of it's creator. Last night, we watched the segment on caves and saw a cave so vast that a jumbo jet could fly within it's walls. And tonight, we watched the shallow seas segment where we saw up close some of the very, very small creatures that live in the oceans. Did you know that pound for pound, krill (a shrimp-like creature) is the must abundant animal on our planet? One swarm of krill can contain 200 million tons of these creatures. For perspective, a Humpback whale can eat 3 tons of these each day. Oh, and a Great White Shark weighs about a ton. Can you tell Adam asked what a ton is exactly?

Talk about perspective!?! This helps me to remember that there is a whole big world out there and what may seem like a problem, really isn't. God is mindful of me and he has the whole planet earth in His hands.