Beautiful Skies

Psalm 8

1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth!

Who hast set Thy glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou ordained strength

because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers,

 the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained;

4 what is man, that Thou art mindful of him?

And the son of man, that Thou visitest him?

5 For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,

and hast crowned him with glory and honor.

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands;

Thou hast put all things under his feet:

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

8 the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,

and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD our Lord,

how excellent is Thy name in all the earth!

This is one of my favorite Psalms.  As songwriter Justyn Rees (http://www.justynrees.com/) sings in one of his songs based on this Psalm, “O Lord my God, how very wonderful You must be.  What am I that You still care for even me?”

When I look at the Heavens and see God’s glory reflected there, I am in awe that He cares for me and loves me.

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A Year of Glory

The Heavens declare the glory of God…Psalm 19:1a

I had this idea at the end of 2014 to take a picture each morning for 2015 and make a movie of the pictures.  After talking pictures for a couple of months, I realized that the gray, overcast days didn’t look very splendid in the movie, so I decided to only use the most glorious skies to demonstrate a small bit of God’s glory.

The other day I came across this definition of God’s glory in a book I was reading – “Birthright” by David Needham.  On page 201 the author asks and answers the questions – “What is His glory?  The displayed splendor of all His attributes.”

Mr. Needham goes on to talk about the goal of everything is to glorify God.  Certainly creation does just that and we are to glorify Him with our thoughts, actions, speech, etc.

I pray that as you enjoy the different images declaring God’s magnificent glory, you will undertake to glorify Him with all of your being.

I want to thank my sister, Linda, for the beautiful music and my daughter, Christy, who took pictures when I was unable to.

Most of the pictures were taken from the back of our house of the sunrise, but a couple were taken from the front, with an iPhone 5.

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