SCRIPTURE: Psalm 8:3-6 NLT When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—the moon and the stars you set in place—what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority.
THOUGHT: God turned over accountability for his intricate, amazing creation to someone else – us. And when he assigned that responsibility, we received an authority that has never been revoked. God knows how it feels to watch his terra firma mishandled, misused, fought over, bled upon, and not treated as sacred. But still, it is ours to work with. Ours to till and build and nurture – or not. Ours to steward the land and love the people, or not. That is both the upside and the down of the freedom God gives. The more the weeds proliferate and choke, the harder it gets; but we are living in a world we helped grow.
PRAYER: Father, we’d often rather throw up our hands in disgust than get them into the soil and dig. Remind us of who you’ve made us to be, the glory and the honor you’ve crowned us with, then give us the strength to toil and till.
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