So unfortunatly, I did not update my blog this summer like I was planning to. Things just got away from me at camp and I just didn't get around to updating it. So I want to take this time to share some things from camp.
Our bible study this year was entitled Got Spirit? It was about how we encounter the Holy Spirit. The first day's was entitled Wonder Makes God Real Every Day and was Psalm 8. Here is it from the NIV.
1 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. 2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? 5 You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. 6 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, 8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. 9 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
This Psalm is a favorite of mine. King David, who wrote the Psalm, describes the wonderment he feals when he thinks about God. This Psalm never fails to make me stand in awe of God. He is truly majestic. Have you ever stood in the middle of a field at night and stared up into the sky at the stars? Whenever I do, I feel so small staring at everything that God created. It really puts my life in perspective. We tend to think that our lives are the most important, but in the grand scheme of things, we are just a two second cameo in the Universe. A two second cameo in God's plan, which is so great, powerful, and majestic. All I want to do when I think about this, is to yell "How Great Thou Art!" to God!
When I was at camp, I had many opprotunities to sit in a field and stare at the stars. Now that I am at school I don't have as many opprotunities to do it. Life seems so crazy with classes, school work, Young Life, that sometimes I feel like I don't have any time to spend time with God and proclaim how majestic He is. As my friend Seth told me while we were in Haiti, "Sometime we need to slow down, and look at the mountains." Therefore I am goin to try and slow down and look at the sky and stars and worship God and proclaim How Majestic He Is.
In His Name,
Andrew
