When is the last time you felt awe-inspired by the sheer beauty of a sunset? By the magnitude and majesty of the night sky? By the ocean’s relentless lapping waves? By the immense grandeur of the Grand Canyon or Rockies or Mississippi or Great Lakes or Appalachians?

Those awe-inspired feelings of transcendence can provoke a number of mixed emotions. Those emotions can include exhilaration, thankfulness, and worship. Ironically, they also can include fear, and insignificance.

Still, almost every man, woman and young person longs to experience moments of transcendence, when we’re awe-inspired. We often will fly, drive, and walk long distances in search of them. After such moments, where does your heart turn? King David shows the way. In Psalm 8:3-4 [MSG], he tells the Lord:  “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?”

Creation magnifies the Lord’s fame. Yet so do we. By our words and actions, let’s be sure to magnify God’s fame today.

This is Luis Palau.