The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Psalm 8:5-8,
"You have made them [human beings] a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas."
God loves mankind so much that he gave his one and only Son to die a miserable death by crucifixion. In this way he satisfied his own sense of justice by accepting the punishment Jesus Christ took on himself for our sins. This is an expression of love that transcends any other. God loves mankind and when he made mankind he did so within the context David observes in psalm 8.
Team Cain, with its wretched leader, Satan, of course hates mankind due simply to the reason that God loves mankind. Satan has set himself against God, with the perverse thought that he wants to be God himself - a fool's errand. Satan has a future and that future is a fiery lake of burning sulfur. He ends up on eternity's ash heap - see Revelation 20:10.
In the meantime Satan opposes the things of God and seeks to thwart God's agenda, which includes attempts to diminish mankind - to rob God of opportunities to add to his kingdom through the gospel. Thus we have an environmental movement with the mindset that mankind is a special stain on Darwin's evolved earth. Team Cain's useful idiots have arrived at the notion that we need to reduce mankind's presence on earth (down to about a half billion world wide) and to reduce mankind's footprint on the face of mother earth. Abortion plays its part, as well as many other initiatives of Team Cain.
This morning, however, I am struck by the lies of Team Cain and how it's agenda and the tenets upon which its worldview is based is at odds with the simple observations of David in Psalm 8. Team Cain maintains man is a stain on earth (themselves excepted, of course) and that mankind must subordinate his existence for the benefit of nature.
David points out they have it all backwards. Nature is here to serve mankind, not the other way around.
By the way, Team Cain loses in the end, and will be sharing in the future that awaits its leader. Talk about choosing poorly!
A blog with my ruminations over the years can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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"You have made them [human beings] a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas."
God loves mankind so much that he gave his one and only Son to die a miserable death by crucifixion. In this way he satisfied his own sense of justice by accepting the punishment Jesus Christ took on himself for our sins. This is an expression of love that transcends any other. God loves mankind and when he made mankind he did so within the context David observes in psalm 8.
Team Cain, with its wretched leader, Satan, of course hates mankind due simply to the reason that God loves mankind. Satan has set himself against God, with the perverse thought that he wants to be God himself - a fool's errand. Satan has a future and that future is a fiery lake of burning sulfur. He ends up on eternity's ash heap - see Revelation 20:10.
In the meantime Satan opposes the things of God and seeks to thwart God's agenda, which includes attempts to diminish mankind - to rob God of opportunities to add to his kingdom through the gospel. Thus we have an environmental movement with the mindset that mankind is a special stain on Darwin's evolved earth. Team Cain's useful idiots have arrived at the notion that we need to reduce mankind's presence on earth (down to about a half billion world wide) and to reduce mankind's footprint on the face of mother earth. Abortion plays its part, as well as many other initiatives of Team Cain.
This morning, however, I am struck by the lies of Team Cain and how it's agenda and the tenets upon which its worldview is based is at odds with the simple observations of David in Psalm 8. Team Cain maintains man is a stain on earth (themselves excepted, of course) and that mankind must subordinate his existence for the benefit of nature.
David points out they have it all backwards. Nature is here to serve mankind, not the other way around.
By the way, Team Cain loses in the end, and will be sharing in the future that awaits its leader. Talk about choosing poorly!
A blog with my ruminations over the years can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know..
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