Among God’s Most Awesome Creations Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Among God’s Most Awesome Creations ------------------------- Date: 5/9/2003 Keywords: "children" "glory" 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 How can kids remind us of God's glory?   Practical help Little children are naturally wholesome, engaging, beautiful — arguably among God's most awesome creations. They illustrate his creativity like nothing else. They reflect his glory (see verse 2 above). Maybe this is why smut exploits and injures children. Its producers seek to destroy these innocent lives as though to claw at God himself, as though to spoil his glory, as though to become more powerful than he. Let's not be fooled by porn's grandiose and perverted agenda. God will serve justice soon enough (see Matthew 18:1-6). Meantime, whenever we see little children, let's see them for what they truly are: shining examples of God's glory, worthy of our admiration — and protection. 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.   --