Majesty - Psalm 8

 

This week, we will be looking at a lovely song, Psalm 8. This psalm explores a theme of God's majesty (and our puny insignificance!). But at the same time, we were created by God in His image - He graciously crowned us with a share of majesty, and He assigned us the role of ruling over His created world.

The scholars are not certain when David wrote this psalm. I kinda think that even a king (who used to be a shepherd boy) would still have enjoyed looking up at the nighttime sky. Gazing at the stars and "making pictures" with their pinpoints of light. Marveling at the vastness of the heavens and comparing that to our "littleness" here on planet earth. 

Let's enjoy David's words:

O Lord, our Lord,

How majestic is Your name in all the earth,

Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!

From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength

Because of Your adversaries,

To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,

The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;

What is man that You take thought of him,

And the son of man that You care for him?

Yet You have made him a little lower than God,

And You crown him with glory and majesty!

You make him to rule 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 through the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Lord,

How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

I hope you will re-read and consider this psalm as we dig in, this week, and study!