For Kids · 3 min with a grown-up
Psalm 8 is a song King David sang while he looked up at the night sky and felt full of wonder.
Today's Story
Picture King David lying out in a field at night. The grass is cool. The sky is huge and black, sprinkled with more stars than anyone could ever count. And David just stares up, amazed.
“Lord, our Lord,” he sings, “how wonderful is Your name in the whole earth!” He looks at the moon. He looks at the stars. And he thinks, God made every single one of those with His own fingers.
Then a big thought hits him. The God who made all of this - the moon, the stars, the whole sky - that same God thinks about people. He thinks about tiny, small us! “What are human beings,” David sings, “that You think about them?”
It almost doesn't make sense. God is so big. We are so small. But God doesn't just notice us - He loves us. He even gave people a special job: to look after the world He made. The fish, the birds, the sheep and the cows, the animals everywhere.
So David ends his song the very same way he started it: “Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is Your name in the whole earth!”
A Big Word
Memory Verse
Talk About It
- Have you ever looked up at the stars or the moon at night? What did it make you feel?
- God is bigger than the whole sky, but He still thinks about you. How does it feel to know God cares about little you?
- God gave people the job of taking care of His world. What is one way you could help take care of an animal or a plant this week?