Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

The reading for today titled God's Handiwork was written by Kenneth Peterson.

On July 12, 2022, scientists awaited the first images of deepest space from the new James Webb Space Telescope.

The state-of-the-art telescope can look farther into the universe than mankind has ever looked before.

Suddenly, a breathtaking image emerges, a color spacecape of the Karina nebula never before

seen like this. One NASA astronomer quoted Carl Sagan, a noted atheist,

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting. Sometimes people can look God in the eye and not see him, but the psalmist David looked

into the sky and knew exactly what he was seeing. You have set your glory in the heavens, he said in

Psalm 8. Sagan was right in saying that something incredible is waiting, but he failed to acknowledge

what David clearly perceived. When I consider your heavens, David says, 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? When we see images of deepest space, we're amazed, not so much because of technology,

but because we're witnessing the handiwork of God. We marvel because in the vastness of creation,

God has made us rulers over the works of his hands. Indeed, something incredible is waiting.

God.

Waiting to bring believers in Jesus to him when he returns.

And that's the most breathtaking image of all.

Today's our daily Brad devotional scripture reading is Psalm 8.

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. You have set your glory in the heavens.

Through the praise of children and infants, you have established a stronghold against your enemies,

to silence the foe and the Avenger.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon, and the stars, which you have

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