How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Psalm 139:17.

This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them. Psalm 34:6-7 NKJV.

This psalm, Psalm 113, is so brief you can be forgiven for reading it and not seeing anything at all. Sometimes it helps to read one line over and over to stop your own thoughts long enough so you can hear God’s speaking to you. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, you his servants; praise the name of the Lord. Let the name of the Lord be praised both now and forevermore. From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised. The Lord is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our God, the One who sits enthroned on high, who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth? He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes, with the princes of his people. He settles the childless woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord.

What did you hear when you read this? I thought about the wonder that our Creator God – Father, Son, Spirit, cares about the poor and needy and seats them with the princes of His people. Our God is no respecter of persons. He helped me see that to love others, I first need to love our God because He loves them; and in loving Him how can I not grow with Him in His love for all of His children? Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1 John 4:7-12.

He created everything we see and all that we can’t see. We take for granted that the Sun rises and sets every day. I googled some facts about the Sun: The Sun is the largest object in our solar system. Its diameter is about 865,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers). Its gravity holds the solar system together, keeping everything from the biggest planets to the smallest bits of debris in orbit around it….The Sun is 864,400 miles (1,391,000 kilometers) across. This is about 109 times the diameter of the Earth. The Sun weighs about 333,000 times as much as Earth. It is so large that about 1,300,000 planet Earths can fit inside of it. From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised.

When I think of this vast Universe we are a part of, how can I not praise the Creator God who created it? And then when I consider that He loves the least among us as well as the greatest, how can I not in awe give thanks and long to learn from Him, who is Love, how to love all that He created including all of us. We are so afraid of losing. Our God is giving. Trust Him for He knows what He is doing and in Him we are held safe even through death.