How Majestic Is Your Name

                                                                              Psalm 8

 

December 15, 2021

 

 

 

How Majestic Is Your Name

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.  A Psalm of David.

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!  You have set your glory above the heavens.  Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.  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.  You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.  O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

 

The word “Majestic” is a new word that attempt to explain its meaning; “noble, lordly, sovereign, exalted, august, great, awesome, awe-inspiring, marvelous, sovereign.” Not one of those tells the story of the Creator of all, that is like David as done in Psalm 8.

 

Can you grasp the full impact of David’s question when he asks God, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?  Jesus by the name David only refers to him as the son of man, yet David had been shown that the son of man was once over the heavenly beings and that God will give Him “Jesus” dominion over all that has been or will be.  The gospel of John 1:1-5 gives us a better understanding of what David is stating.  “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.  In him was life, and the life was the light of men.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”  

 

John goes on to give more insight into this Word that was God in verses 9-13,  ^“The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.  He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.   He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.  But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,  who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”

 

John does not leave us in the dark as to who the “Word”, or the “True Light” is in John 1:16-17, “For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.   For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” 

 

If you have not met Jesus, He is very near, it only requires faith that God the Father will give to all who ask, and to come to an understanding that being in right standing with God has not one thing to do with your goodness, “For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.”  But God sent His Son, his only Son to pay for sin, yours and mine, and today it is your choice, life or death, my prayer is you choose life, and only Jesus can give life now and forever.

 

From The Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice