Thank you. At some point, most of us have wondered about our significance in this life and have

questioned who God is, and if he really cares about us personally, we're going to explore

those questions today on Truth for Life and find out that

there's no such thing as an ordinary person.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Psalm 8.

The writer of this poem, this 8th Psalm, knew what it was, to sleep out underneath the night sky

and to look up into the heavens and to wonder and to ponder. And if we're honest, each of us

has occasion to do the self-same thing. It may not be that

we are open to the elements. It may be that we are cocooned safely in the environment that

is most comfortable to us. But when a new day dawns, we know what it is to address our own personal concerns.

In some cases, our secret and private fears, the longings of our hearts.

And in the midst of it all, we have to go somewhere, we have to go to someone in order

to find solace in relationship to these things.

And the great temptation of our age, of course, is to believe what is most on offer to us,

namely the idea that we will be able to secure sufficient answers to these things by looking inside of ourselves.

And so we're told that we have the capacity if we would only just discover who and what we really are.

But I don't know if you would agree with me. When I discover what I really am and what I'm really like,

it doesn't actually fill me with joy and with expectation. It actually fills me more with disappointment and concern and an increased sense

of fearfulness. Where are we looking for the hell? What are we supposed to do when we confront these questions, fundamental questions

that are here in the Psalm? They're essentially two. Who is God and what am I? And how do the two

things interact with one another and does it really matter? Is the question, who is God,

just a kind of big philosophical question that bears no relevance

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