How Excellent is Your Name!

Psalm 8:1 "O LORD, our LORD, How excellent is your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!"

This earth, the moon, the stars and all that our Lord made are glorious creations! David says in verses 3-4 "When I look at Your heavens, and the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?"

Compared to the whole of the cosmos humanity is a small thing. When David wrote this Psalm he was in awe of the Lord and the way that He cares for us in light of His whole creation. That is the beauty of God though, He loves us so deeply that He sent His only son to die for us. God is not set on high marveling at the cosmos but rather His word reveals that He is bent in loving and caring for humanity in such a personal way that we should be looking up marveling at Him saying O LORD, Our Lord How EXCELLENT is Your name in all the earth!

Joy FULL!

Hello Coffee! Good morning Vacation! I am happy to be alive and sitting in my kitchen window studying for a short bit.   

John 15:9-11 tells us “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.” 

It is so powerful to know that our obedience will bring us Joy! The Lord wants our Joy to be full and it can be full when we are connected to Him because Jesus brings TRUE joy! We may feel sensations of joy in this life but TRUE joy is found when we are trusting Him, leaning into Him, praising Him and reading His word! 

All the hard stuff gets a little easier when we are looking through the lens of His love and His purpose!  I have walked through difficult seasons with and without the Lord and I can look back and see what a complete wreck I was without Him. I never again want to have a perspective that does not start with Gods love and purpose. 

Are you walking through a difficult season today? Maybe it's like ground hog day in your life? Ask your self this; Am I looking through the lens of Gods love and purpose? If not everything may be skewed out of perspective because the filter we apply to our life is everything. Truly there is only one pure filter to put us in proper perspective, Jesus Christ! Run everything through Him and you will see what a difference it makes!

 #remaininHim #connectwithJesus #yourjoycanbefull