In John Ng's Message today,
There is true fellowship with God in gratitude.

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. Psalms 8

And he asked. What do parents want from their children?
Is it obedience? money? love? Or is it gratitude and Harmony?
I take time now to say a thank you. Thank you God.

Do you feel like a nobody?
Nobody might seem to care, you just feel like a failure based on your own failures.

But the Question is....
"Who are you in God's perspective? What are you in God's perspective?"
Gratitude comes from a recognition and experience of who God is. What is God to you? Is he divine? majestic? He is who he is, just as we are who we are.

In Matthew 21. Jesus healed many, and the children were praising him. The chief priest and the pharisees were yet unhappy. And Jesus said..."I am God" Only in these children's inadequacies did they truly see God's strength.

v2. "From the lips of children and infatns you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger"

"A self made person will find it difficult to be grateful.

"Looking at the star-studded night sky, the psalmist is overwhelmed with a sense of the relatively ephemeral and frail character of human beings and wonders why the Creator pays any attention to such infinitesimally tiny creatures." Anderson.

v4. "What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?"
Why God?

"We are more God like than beast-like"

v5 "You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honour."
We are special....

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings,
but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time;
we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment;
more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly,
laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly,
stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life;
we've added years to life, not life to years.

We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We've conquered outer space, but not inner space.
We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.

We write more, but learn less.
We plan more, but accomplish less.
We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion;
tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare;
more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.

These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality,
one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.

"Our God is far greater than words can make known,
Exalted and holy, He reigns on His throne.
In infinite splendor He rules over all;
Yet He feeds the poor sparrows, and He knows when they fall.

He rides the wild heavens, He strides thro’ the seas;The high mountains tremble to hear His decrees.
His voice with great thunderings sounds from above;
But to His own children He whispers His love.

His power is great and will ever endure,
His wisdom is peaceable, gentle, and pure.
But greater than all these glories I see,
Is the glorious promise that He cares for me.”

I teared twice today...

i love you so much.