Praise the Lord: God Who Stoops to Lift Us

That's how all of the things that we see that are so impressive to us, and the sky is beautiful. It really is beautiful, and and we it is easy to go outside and and think about what a what a huge planet we live on and and how wonderful this sky is, and we can be grateful that God made it, but then it's so small compared to God. God stoops down to Because this is what he does. When he stoops down, God sits on high, but he looks low. Why? Verses seven through nine. Raises the poor out of the dust and lifts the needy out of the ash heap that he may seat him with princes princes with the princes of his people. He grants the barren woman a home like a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord. [00:49:03] (71 seconds)  #GodExaltsTheHumble

Maybe maybe you've always wanted to be a mom, and and for for reasons that you don't understand, you haven't had that that ability. A friend of mine, he and his wife were never able able to conceive, and they they eventually got to where they would not go to church on Mother's Day because it is simply too painful for them to be there and see the mothers, all the mothers with their children and and a lot of churches they recognize the mothers which is absolutely fine to do. But that was really, really painful. And then so they got to where they wouldn't go to church on Mother's Day. [00:51:06] (39 seconds)  #HonoringTheHurt

and it's like a sunny day, like a bright blue sky, especially if it's one of those where there's lots of the big white cumulus clouds out there, we can really get a sense for the depth and the vastness of our sky. Next time you go out and you see this huge, colossal, vast expanse that's above us, look up at the sky, take it all in, take in how big the sky is, and then say, look at that little bitty sky. Look at that teeny weeny sky. Because God is so much higher than that and bigger than that. [00:47:46] (45 seconds)  #SkyRemindsOfGod

It's a hard day for a lot of people. There are lots of there are are lots of ways that life can be challenging, whether it has to do with wanting to be mother like this passage talks about specifically not being able to be one, whether it's economic troubles, this passage talks about that as well. Health, various kinds of of hurts, things can be really, really hard. But what this passage says is that this this God who's over all the nations, over the heavens even, who who dwells on high or or is enthroned on high, that that God that God stoops down, and he looks at our sky. [00:51:46] (58 seconds)  #GodSeesOurStruggle