In what sense are people rulers over creation?

As most of you can tell Ive just started rereading the book of Psalm - What a great book!!

Psalm 8:6
In what sense are people rulers over creation?

At creation, God set humankind above all other species to rule and subdue the earth (Genesis 1:28). Conceivably, reason, intel­ligence, and self-consciousness could have been given to fish or birds, but, in fact, the gift and responsibility settled on humans, by God's design and will.

People, therefore, do not rule over creation as final authorities. Rather, people are stewards over God's creation. A good manager cares for the property of his employer and is compensated according to the growth of assets in his domain (Matthew 24:46). Whether your vocation is law, plumbing, education, forestry, or ministry, God is pleased when your circle of responsibility is well managed—that is, handled with integrity, virtue, and vision.

Is God Capable of Hate as well as Love?

Read Psalm 5: 5 BEFORE you read any more.......

Now that you read that verse I ask you the question
Is God capable of hate as well as love?
Here are some of my thoughts now will you share yours as well

Any description of God will necessarily use terms and ideas solidly anchored in human experience. Our own experience, after all, is our only reference point for knowing God. It should be no surprise, then, that most of the emotions people feel are attributed to God at some time: jealousy, fatigue, love, and even hate.

What kind of hate would God feel? Not the hate born of fear, as a soldier hates an enemy. Not the hate born of blind rage, as a jealous lover hates his competitor. Not the hate that seeks to conquer, as a tyrant hates people living just over the border. Not the hate of political intrigue, as an office-holder hates the other party.

God's hate is directed at evil. It is hate that burns at offense against God's own character, which is altogether holy and good. God's hate smokes when creation witnesses to a reality other than God, namely, a reality based on greed and anger. God's hate is directed toward purification, not annihilation. God's hate seeks recovery, not death.

Does God hate people? A careful distinction must be kept here. The Bible is clear that God wants all people to know His forgiveness and grace. But some will refuse, mocking God's character and rejecting His overture of mercy. When that refusal becomes entrenched, God promises judgment apart from the mercy of Christ. When rebellion against God becomes the identifying mark of a person, that person must become the object of God's righteous hatred.

We can safely say that God has a steady hatred toward sin and a reluctant hatred toward committed sinners. In an odd way that reaches beyond human experience, God hates as a function of His love. That is, God's defining characteristic is love. Included in God's love is hatred for all that stands opposed to His character and violates His intentions.

Should people today take time to Meditate?

Perhaps the most widely read book in the Bible (Psalm), these songs and poems lead us to ask why someone so big (God) would care about things so small (us).

Reading Psalm 1:2 made me pose this question - (I already knew the answer but some of the greatest questions asked are the ones we know the answer to)

Should people today take time to meditate?
With so many message "inputs" competing for our attention, now is the best time in history to meditate on God's Word. No previous generation has ever been so media rich and meditation poor. Who can hear God through the roar of cellular phones, television comedies, Web sites, and special-effects motion pictures? Most people never think about God during the day, much less meditate on His Word.
Granted, meditating on God's Word means less time for sales and
fewer billable hours. In a culture that trades time for money, meditation
carries a cost. Can we afford it? People today who take time to meditate
are choosing spiritual wealth as the first priority. Who can afford not to?

Are Satan and God on speaking terms?

Are Satan and God on speaking terms?
The Lord speaks; Satan speaks. They talk about Job as if they are negotiating over the evil initiatives that Satan proposes and the constraints that God imposes. Do cosmic conversations like this really happen?
The Bible often pictures a divine council discussing human events— how lives will unfold, how events will transpire. Using analogies to human experience, Bible authors describe these episodes to explain how a good all-powerful God, tolerates and then redeems evil in the world. These are not newspaper reports, eyewitness accounts of divine summits; they are the best way to understand a vast spiritual warfare being conducted behind and through the events of world history and our personal histories. This warfare is between God, whose victory is certain, and Satan, who futilely yet persistently seeks to subvert God's plan.
God and Satan, pictured in discussion here, are not equals in a contest over the universe. Satan is as much a creature as we are, yet without hope and sadly underequipped for the task to which he aspires. He can run but cannot hide. He rejects God's authority but cannot escape God's sovereignty. Here Satan needs permission to proceed. Once he wrecks Job's life, Satan disappears from the drama.

Did the kings help or hurt Israel as a nation?

In reading I Samuel 8:6-9 here was some very brief thoughts

Did the kings help or hurt Israel as a nation?
In demanding a king, Israel became like even-other nation of the world. Instead of asking God for relief from counterfeit spiritual lead­ers, they cried, "Give us a king!" They rejected God's rule in favor of human leadership.
Moses had written about the danger of a human monarchy (Deuteronomy 17:14-20). He warned future kings against large stables, horse-trading with Egypt, collecting many wives, and accumulating wealth. The lives of Israel's kings appear to be an effort to do exactly what God had warned against

Where did the practice of dedicating children come from?

Parents in the Bible, such as Hannah, dedicated children to God to acknowledge God's part in giving them children. They were remembering that their children belonged to God. This practice had particular importance when the first son was born.
In many societies, firstborn sons have special privileges, including the right to most of the family's estate. The birth of the family's first son brought special honor to the mother—she had provided her husband with a future to the family name. Certainly Jewish families felt blessed by firstborn sons.
The Bible gives firstborn sons an important teaching role. Each of the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) were affected by the handling of firstborns. The death sentence passed on the firstborns of Egypt as the final plague before the Exodus made it clear that the very future of that nation was in God's hands (Exodus 11:1-12:30). At that same time, God told Moses, "Dedicate to me all the firstborn sons of Israel and every firsborn male animal. They are mine" (Exodus 13:1).
Although other nations practiced child sacrifice, Gods people were instructed to "redeem" their firstborn sons by offering a substitute sacrifice (Exodus 13:12-16). In Hannah's case (1 Samuel 1:11), dedication of a child involved leaving the recently weaned Samuel with the priest Eli to be raised as a servant of God. In most cases, Old Testament parents recognized God's ownership by dedicating their children through an animal sacrifice.
A modern form of child dedication is practiced in some churches as a means of committing and entrusting that child to God's sovereign care.