How Majestic!

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man, that you are mindful of him, and the son of man, that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings, and crowned him with glory and honor. . . . O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8:1-5, 9)

Psalms 8 is an amazing chapter of the Bible to meditate on. Yet how much more amazing it is to read when you've just returned from observing mighty, towering, powerful storm clouds! That is exactly what happened to me earlier this week. 

It had been a rainy day, on and off, like it gets in the summer (in Kentucky, anyway). Tyler and I had observed some large, stormy looking clouds, so that evening we went out to see what there was to see. We had no idea.

For my part, I was blown away. It's so hard to portray how big these clouds looked in reality! (Have I said that before?)

It was simply beautiful, the setting sun and the approaching storm clouds. Very quickly approaching storm clouds. It was an awesome sight.

The clouds came over like a wall. Fortunately, for whatever reason, the cloud that passed over us had very little rain, so we didn't get wet. We got to see the powerful, majestic storm without interruption, and photograph it too! (All safely of course, Mom)

After the cloud had passed over, we got some beautiful shots of the sun set.

This is a wide-angle/panoramic shot. See how the sun lit up the back end of the clouds? It really looked that color. It looked like the clouds were made of mud!

Mud clouds!!! Yikes!

The entire scene (which lasted about 1/2 hour) was absolutely stunning. Then I came in and happened to come across Psalm 8. To read that and understand that God's glory is above these majestic heavens is simply astounding. Oh how great is our God. Yet, He cares for us. He is glorified through feeble folks like us. He establishes His strength through little babies like you and me, and He is glorified by that. Surely the majesty of the glory of God is beyond any earthly comprehension!

Amen!