Psalm 8:3-6
“When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; what is man, that you care for him? What is the son of man, that you visit him? For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor. You make him to have dominion over the works of your hands. You have put all irrigation under his feet.”
This psalm is a hymn of praise, likely used in worship, reflecting on humanity's place in the vastness of creation. The psalmist, contemplating the night sky, marvels at God's attention to human beings despite their smallness in the cosmos.
What does it mean for human worth to be rooted in something beyond human achievement or perception?