Today's reading is Psalms 8-12
This Psalm reminds us that man isn’t an equal among animals. We aren’t the “human animal” which some like to refer to us, we are more. We are over other animals. This means we can choose what to do with them but also that we need to care for them.
I am amazed that people claim that we should treat animals humanely, but then want to claim that we are just animals. It is a contradictory thought. If I suggested, we treat animals like other animals treat animals many people would be upset. Yet you can not have it both ways, we are either greater than the animals a place given us by God, or we are just animals in which case nothing matters everything is going to die eventually anyway so do whatever you want.
The scriptures teach us that we are greater than the animals. With that elevated status, we are responsible for how we treat the world we have been given.
Side note: Some may feel the right thing to do is to go vegetarian and they are free to do. However, Jesus ate meat and nowhere in scripture does it indicate that we today are to become vegetarians.
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