Lord, let the Certainty of what we know
guide us through all we do not!
We stand so small beneath the tall outpouring of the sky
Ah, what is man that God, who spreads yon span knows you and I
And loves us still, and bids us trust in His unfailing care
While round about the world seems bound with doubt, hate and despair
If God is for us who can be against us; hence we go
In kind humility to bind the wounds of our foe
For if we simply love our own, we mimic pagan spec
Ah, who can stay afloat with hate’s millstone tied round the neck
And who are we, if God loves us that He should spare the rod
Lest by omission we perceive his blessing on our pride
We cannot understand the thoughts and ways of He who gave
His sinless Son to suffer unto death our souls to save
But by his grace (and only by His grace) we will succeed
Because His love will be enough to supply our need
Lord, grant us wisdom through your Word to see through evil’s lies
Lest, by conceit or folly we fall prey to truth’s disguise
Lead us not into temptation; deliver us from vice
And thought’s unrighteousness into love’s law of sacrifice
© Janet Martin
Psalm 8
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,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?[c]
and crowned them[f] with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their[g] feet:
7 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!
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