Until we grasp this ingrained sense of insignificance, we can’t appreciate how stunning the thought was that lowly humankind is somehow precious to God and of intimate concern to him: When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. (Ps. 8:3–5)
