For any avid followers of my blog-- sorry for the silence! I've been in the throes of prepping for our new school year. Which has meant schedules, lists, more schedules, more lists, practicing games, signing kids up for sports, more schedules, more lists... ;) And I'm excited-- in a very TIRED sort of way. But that is not the point of this post. =)
This evening, Shorty was reading to our Crew during family worship from Mark 2. And something really stuck out to me.
And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"
Mark 2:12
I briefly talked to Shorty about this one (as we were trying to get the Crew to stay in bed), and we both think that the people in this verse were not intentionally glorifying God. In fact, they may not have even been AWARE that they were praising Him. But the very fact that they were saying, "Dude! This is impossible!" (my contemporary paraphrase! =)) was bringing glory to God!
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth 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. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Psalms 8:1-9
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