Bible Studies

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We begin a second week of journey on our path through the psalms. These second seven lessons will bring us to new and higher ground. The path is like a hillside trail that switches back and forth as it goes; we shall be looking down over the same ground as we go but from a higher perspective.

The first seven lessons began a journey that emphasized learning how to act on a path of seeking that arrived at praise. These next seven lessons look to how we think about the world around us, about the people we see there and about ways to apply that praise. We are moving from a general awareness to specific examples that we see every day and we begin with an act of praise.





8. Praise and Comfort

O Lord our King, your glory is so great that even calling your name is a comfort to us.
The young and the innocent speak the truth naturally and it confounds our enemies.
When I consider the size of the universe, the stars and galaxies that You have made;

What is man that You even consider him, or the children of men that You teach them?
You have made us a little lower than the angels,
But You gave us understanding of your glory and honor.

You gave us power over everything You made, all your works are under our feet:
Every animal, bird and fish are for our use, everything in the world.
O Lord our King, even your name is a comfort to us.





They knew of the Milky Way in ancient times, but it was not until 1925 that the world became aware there were other galaxies out there. Throughout the ages our inability to comprehend the true size of the universe has remained unchanged. It seems that the more we know about our surroundings, the more questions we have. Though we have gone to the moon we do not freely travel through the heavens as angels. We have been given power over this earth, but knowledge requires responsible use of our gifts or we might destroy the ability of the living earth to support us.

We know how to give praise for each other and our accomplishments, but does that praise lead to higher understanding? In relation to the size of the known universe, perhaps we know less now than ever before. But awareness of what we don’t know is still knowledge and it can be used to find understanding (1Cor 8:2-3). We know that we cannot know everything and there is some comfort in that because we don’t need to know everything. There is a higher power that will guide us.

We are told that God’s glory is so great, even calling his name is a comfort to us. Simply knowing there is God is a form of praise. We are like a flower petal, shining for a while in the sun. Our being gives glory to the One who created us. We know that we do not have much power on our own and what we do have comes to us from somewhere else.

Lesson eight is the beginning of another cycle of three as well as a cycle of seven. We give our praises by learning about the wonder of the magnificent universe. The size of what we can see is beyond normal comprehension and it gives us a perspective on our relationship to the God who created us as a part of it.

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