What is Mankind that You are Mindful of Them?
As a shepherd boy, David had the opportunity to look into the skies night after night and observe the moon and stars. What did he imagine they were? Did he know the stars were just like our sun only much further away? Did he know the moon is just a big rock circling the earth reflecting the sun? Obviously, David marveled at them as he contemplated that they were all designed and created by God. In light of the vastness and greatness of it all he wondered, “what is mankind that you are mindful of them?” We are like little ants in the scope of all of creation. The more we know about our universe and the vastness of it all, the more we realize how small and insignificant we are. At one point humanity believed we were the center of our solar system, and now we realize we aren’t the center of anything, our earth is just a little marble in the outer rim of one galaxy among 50 trillion galaxies in our universe. And yet we are the only creation God has chosen to make in his image, to be just less than the angels. We are the only creation with a soul and a capacity to know God and be with God eternally. It is truly mind blowing. What is mankind that you would be mindful of us? And yet God is. God created us specifically to receive and give his love. Are you aware of how special you are to God? Never doubt your self worth because you are created to be exactly the way God designed you, to know him and experience his love, which is demonstrated and offered to us through the Son of God, Jesus. In order to embrace God’s love, we need to embrace Jesus.
This should also cause us to praise God for who God is, that he created us, and cares for us. As David declared, “Lord our Lord, how majestic is your name in alll the earth.”