Psalms 8:1-9

8:1-9 | The theme of Psalm 8 (How excellent) blazes across this Psalm from start to finish. The psalmist wants readers to understand that their meaning starts and ends with the glory of God and who He is.

8:3 | God’s fingers set the stars in place. There is far less power in the hand than the arm and far less power in the finger than the hand. To create stars, planets, and galaxies, God needed only His fingers.

8:4-5 | The greatness of God extends beyond a hundred million universes that are tossed into space as mere handfuls of stardust; it extends to each member of the human race. God thinks of His people and cares for them, small though they are in a vast universe (Heb. 2:6-8).