When I consider the heavens..

Can you imagine the dark nights that David was on pastures along with the sheep and looking up at the starry hosts, pondering on the vastness and beauty of the universe and greatness of God? The days and nights David spent alone with the sheep in the pastures helped David understand the greatness of God and he became a worshipper. David also recognised that he was someone very precious in God's sight. These periods allowed David to develop a strong relationship with God and he communed with God because there was no one else he could communicate with.

In the following psalm David writes about how great God is and how small in comparison we are. However, David writes about how God has made us only a little lower than Himself! We are precious in God's sight even though we are very small and powerless in comparison to God!
Psalm 8:3-9(NLT)
When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—
  the moon and the stars you set in place—
what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
  human beings that you should care for them?
Yet you made them only a little lower than God
  and crowned them with glory and honor.
You gave them charge of everything you made,
  putting all things under their authority—
  the flocks and the herds
  and all the wild animals,
  the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea,
  and everything that swims the ocean currents.
O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!

Why do you think that David wrote what he did - that we are precious to God, made a little lower than Him and crowned with glory and honor?! David wrote this because even though he knew and understood the surpassing greatness of God, he really communed with God and had a real relationship with Him. David was just awed that an omniscient, omnipresent, all powerful, great God loved to commune with Him! The reason that God is able to commune with us is because we are made in His own image! Being created in God's image means that we have the communicable attributes of God like reasoning, speaking, making choices, have emotions, have a moral character, have a desire for love, realtionships and values like faithfulness, mercy and justice. Non-communicable attributes of God are the characteristics that make God, God. God made us in His image intentionally so that He can relate to us unlike anything else in creation!
Genesis 1:26-28
Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”.
Psalm 139: 13 - 14
For you created my inmost being;

    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.

He wants to commue with us because He created us in love and loves us deeply and fully. He loved us unconditionally and loves us inspite of ourself. Even though we are sinful ever since Adam and Eve first sinned, He had a plan to redeem us. The redemption plan cost Him - death of His own son Jesus and He paid the ultimate price so that we can continue in relationship with Him. This is what defines human value and worth - not where we are born, our race, our skin color, wealth, looks, fame or any earthly parameter.

John 3: 16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 4: 10

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 

1 John 4: 19

We love because he first loved us.

Even now, centuries later, we can relate to David's psalm. We should feel a greater sense of awe than David did when we understand more of the universe with the help of modern technology and begin to comprehend the vastness of all that He has made. We also now live in a time we can have a personal relationship with this amazing God because of what Christ did on the cross for us and we have the Holy Spirit living in us! The same God who communed with David is now waiting to commune with you because you are precious to Him. Let's not keep him waiting becasue we are too busy. Let's grow in our relationship and understanding of this powerful awe-inspiring God who loves us so deeply than we can begin to fathom.