Big G vs. Big T Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Big G vs. Big T------------------------- Date: 5/8/2003 Keywords: "glory" "temptation" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Psalm 8:1-9* (today focusing on verses 1-6) For the director of music. According to gittith . A psalm of David. 1. O LORD , our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2. From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. 3. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4. what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? 5. You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: 7. all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field, 8. the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. 9. O LORD , our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Question What would it take to get your mind off smut?   Practical help Nothing like a psalm of David to lift our struggling spirits — and thoughts. So we think heaven is as high as it gets? Verse 1 above says there's something even higher: God's glory. The Big G. Not a bad thing to remember when we're prowlin' for thrills. We think porn is stimulating? It's a pitiful parody, if that, of God's glory. God is love, beauty, power, impact, pizzazz all wrapped up into one thing: the Bible. Don't take our word for it. Try this: Next time your hormones are screaming for smut, or so you'd think, open the Bible to Psalm 8 (see above). See what thinking about God's glory (the Big G) can do to the Big T (temptation). eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2003 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.