{"id":3472,"date":"2007-07-10T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2007\/07\/how-awesome-is-your-name-through-all-the-earth.html"},"modified":"2007-07-10T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T10:25:00","slug":"how-awesome-is-your-name-through-all-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2007\/07\/how-awesome-is-your-name-through-all-the-earth.html","title":{"rendered":"“How awesome is Your name through all the earth”"},"content":{"rendered":"

You stumble across a story like this one<\/a>, announcing that scientists have discovered “the most distant galaxies ever,” and you can’t help but think of David, who put pen to paper and wrote: <\/p>\n

When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars that you set in place– <\/p>\n

What is man that you are mindful of him, mere mortals that you care for them? <\/p>\n

Yet you have made them little less than a god, crowned them with glory and honor. <\/p>\n

You have given them rule over the works of your hands, put all things at their feet: <\/p>\n

All sheep and oxen, even the beasts of the field, <\/p>\n

The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, and whatever swims the paths of the seas. <\/p>\n

O LORD, our Lord, how awesome is your name through all the earth! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/i> Awesome? If only David had been able to use a telescope…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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