Majesty - God Is Renown

Majesty

Read Psalm 8:1-2, “1 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.”

God let’s man run his own way, and run his own course. God has created man, to have volition, as right from the beginning. It is part of his making man in his own image. To be able to enact moral decisions in life. I have heard it said, this is the difference between man and animals. Animals act by instinct, but they do not have the ability to make moral decisions.

God’s name is exalted in the current and present, “now”. Even though not everyone acknowledges, or is acknowledging his name. God is not dependent on the strong of the world, to exercise his kingdom advance. He can use the weak, or the worldly strong. There is times when babies, and infants have been used by God to establish kingdom procedure in this earth. The Spirit, finds an agent, where divine purposes can be executed through, and God can and even uses an infant to obliterate the powers of the enemy if he chooses.

God’s name is majestic, and should be honored and held in high worship. People should stop, and get on their knees, and give God his glory, and thank him for the powers to live in this world, and commit themselves to his reign as ultimate King. Even, in heaven, the name of God, is above. As much as God is greater than anything in his creation, so he is greater than heaven.

The Care Of God Reciprocated In Mankind

Read Psalm 8:3-8, “3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? 5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 6You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, 7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, 8  he birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.”

Isaiah also addresses the greatness of God. The heavens, and the work of creation and the all-surpassing magnitude of the greatness of the Creator that holds the planets and stars and galaxies in order, and who put them, in place. “Scientists can explain what is there, but they cannot explain, how it works ultimately.” (Tim Epp) This is true. Scientists can explain and debate and commentate on what they see. But they cannot understand what makes it all work. They can explain that there are gravities, and gases, and masses, but they cannot explain the mysteries of how and why and what. Here is what Isaiah states,

Isaiah 40:12-13, “Who has measured the [j]waters in the hollow of His hand, And marked off the heavens by the [k]span, And [l]calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, And weighed the mountains in a balance And the hills in a pair of scales? 13 Who has [m]directed the Spirit of the Lord, Or as His counselor has informed Him?

We know by plain Scripture that God is the one, who set them in place. Truly there is no other reasonable explanation. And when we see how great God is, it should move us, to be in awe that he would care for humans, so small as we are. God even gave man a purpose in this world, to have dominion and to oversee other created beings and structures, such as animals, and fish, and ability to build cities and towns. God, gives powers to mankind, even people who do not acknowledge him, to have dominion over the creation.

All The Earth

Psalm 8:9, “ O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

The earth, is summoned to participate, in what it was ultimately created for. Granted, man goes his own way, but God also is blaring his voice in the earth, to get mankind to give God his due. The psalm is written most likely for a choir. “to the choirmaster”. It is a Psalm that David penned, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and used for worship in Israel. Most likely this psalm was put into song, and the anointing of the Spirit would have given it life and validity. The choir says, “our Lord”, and David wrote this, as a leader, also in worship. He helped Israel, look to God, and his heart for worship influenced the national Israel to cultivate a faithful view of God, of who He is and the ultimate reason to exist.

God bless you