The Painted Door Church - Chicago
The Psalter of Jesus: The Case for Awe // Psalm 8
May 21, 2017
Pastor Mark Bergin
The things we make say a lot about us. They reveal what we like, and
therefore reveal something of what we are like. So too with our God. This
world he made reveals what he likes, and therefore something of what he is
like. “The heavens declare the glory of God,” the psalmist writes. And
again: “The heavens proclaim his righteousness, and all the peoples see his
glory.” In the many varied ways that this world glimmers to us, we are
given opportunity to marvel at the glory of God, to wonder at his
creativity and imagination. And it is only in being awestruck by him that
we rightly see the value of his creation. When our awe wanes, we mistreat
the creation -- either by over-valuing it and asking some piece of it to be
our god; or by devaluing it and subjugating some piece of it to be our
slave. But God would rescue us from those swamps of ruin. If what he has
made cannot hold our gaze, then perhaps he can do so in the flesh. Jesus
came into the world not to reflect God like the rest of creation, but to
embody him. He came to arrest our hearts and fill us with awe to
everlasting.