{"id":142,"date":"2025-08-18T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justanotherman.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:46:23","slug":"just-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justanotherman.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/just-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a worship service at our church service this week. It is a simpler service that focusses on worship with no sermon. A number of people were asked for their favourite worship song and got to introduce it and say why it was important to them.<\/p>\n

I was asked to read a worship verse and to also explain why I picked it. If you’ve read your Bible you will know that you are spoilt for choice when it comes to worship verses. I first looked at the New Testament but it seemed to focus more on behaviour (e.g. living a Christian life) than straight worship and in a lot of the Old Testament verses I looked at, worship was coupled with obedience. Unsurprisingly, I ended up in the Psalms.<\/p>\n

But which one really spoke to me? Well, after reading through a number of them, I kept going back to Psalm 8. But why that one?<\/p>\n

Well it came down to verse 4.<\/p>\n

“what is mankind that You are mindful of them, human beings that You care for them?”.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That one verse really spoke to me. There is this all powerful God that really cares for us. Not in the way that we care for our pets but, from verse 6 “You made them rulers over the works of Your hands”, a God that loves us enough to put us in control over His works. I find that incredibly humbling. <\/span><\/p>\n

For me that is a God truly worthy of worship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Psalm 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1\u00a0<\/sup>Lord<\/span>, our Lord,<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
\nYou have set Your glory
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>in the heavens.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2 <\/sup>Through the praise of children and infants
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 Y<\/span>ou have established a stronghold against Your enemies,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>to silence the foe\u00a0and the avenger.
\n3 <\/sup>When I consider Your heavens,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>the work of Your fingers,
\nthe moon and the stars,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>which You have set in place,
\n4 <\/sup>what is mankind that You are mindful of them,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>human beings that You care for them?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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5\u00a0<\/sup>You have made them a little lower than the angels<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>and crowned them\u00a0with glory and honour.<\/span><\/span>
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>You made them rulers over the works of Your hands;<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>you put everything under their\u00a0feet:<\/span><\/span>
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>all flocks and herds,<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>and the animals of the wild,<\/span><\/span>
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>the birds in the sky,<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>and the fish in the sea,<\/span><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>all that swim the paths of the seas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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9\u00a0<\/sup>Lord<\/span>, our Lord,<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>how majestic is Your name in all the earth!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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