Re:Verse reading–Psalm 8 (day four)
Have you ever stood out in the country, or better yet, on top of a mountain and looked up into the vast night sky? The stars…the Milky Way…the constellations…the universe… stretched before you from east to west, north to south? I have. The pictures are etched into my memory. I can not only remember most every experience, I can remember the overwhelming feeling of grandeur. It is Psalm 8 that immediately comes to mind when I have such an experience. The majesty of the creation is but a small portion of the majesty of the Creator. As we contemplate the glory of our Creator, the response of the Psalmist wells up inside us…’when I consider all of this, God, what is man that you are mindful of him?’ The focus of our worship must always be on the person of God. The Psalmist started and ended this psalm in recognition of that…”O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!”
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Re:Verse reading–Psalm 8 (day one)
“O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” (vs 1) Fill in the blanks. “For purple mountain_________above the fruited plain.” (think song) “Her ________, the Queen!” (think England) When David says that God’s name is majestic, He used a word (addir) which meant, “glorious, mighty, huge or wide”. It was a word of scope, scale and size. Name meant “reputation or character”. It is an insight that came to David as he watched the stillness and beauty of the nighttime sky. How could the creator of such beauty not be beautiful, Himself? How could He be small? There is great benefit for those who gain this perspective. Whenever we are overwhelmed it is usually because our problems have gotten large and our God has gotten small (in our eyes, at least). To recover this vision is to experience peace. “Little ones to Him belong, they are weak, but He is STRONG!”