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Monday... Why do You bother with us?


Monday... As I was reading this morning in Psalm 8 (MSG) I came upon this question in verse 4, "Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?" And as you read the OT in the Bible you see that it is way more than a second look. Why? Why? Why? Why God do You bother with us? You could start all the way over, You're God. 

As the first verse of Psalm 8 (Amp) says, "O Lord, our Lord, how majestic and glorious and excellent is your name in all the earth! You have displayed Your splendor above the heavens." Verses 3 - 8 says, "When I see and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the starts, which You have established, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him? Yet" I love that word, "Yet You have crowned him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas." So why in the whole world, God do you do that, why do You bother with us?

And the Psalmist brings us back to the why. Verse 9 says, "O Lord our Lord, how majestic and glorious and excellent is Your name in all the earth!" The reason why He bothers with us is because He is God. That is the way He is, that is what He does. And I thank You, and Praise You, God, for bothering with us! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


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