O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose you. When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers— the moon and the stars you set in place— what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority— the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents. O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! (Psalms 8:1-9 NLT)
Observation
Written about how God used David to kill Goliath.
4 Components of praise in this Psalm
1. Making known Himself and His great name to us
2. Making use of the weakest of children and men to serve His own purposes.
3. For making even the angels useful to men
4. For making man to have dominion over the lower creatures of the earth.
- This psalm is also applied to Christ and His redemptive work in the New Testament.
- When we are observing God's glory in nature, we should also observe God's glory in the Kingdom of grace.
- God is infinitely more glorious than any creature here on earth.
- God proclaims His glory most powerfully by the weakest of creatures.
- David recounts the honor God has put on man, a great way to bring forth praise.
- We are to gaze upon the heavens, our affections should be directed to the heavens above.
- David wrote this psalm at night gazing upon the stars.
Application and Prayer
How Great Thou Art, that is the song that comes to mind with You O Lord. It is pretty amazing to think about all that You created, and then try to correspond that to a personal relationship with You. What can I compare it to? Knowing the President? No, if the
President of the United States was always accessible to me, always coming to my rescue, knew the number of hairs on my head, provided for me in every way, even then it wouldn't come close to what it is like for the God of the Universe to choose a relationship with me. You have chosen to be close to my mess and help clean it up; clean me up.
How can I understand it? Most of the time I treat You as an earthly Father, Best Friend, and Husband all wrapped up in one. This communicates Your love for me, but not Your greatness. To combine Sovereignty and unconditional Love together, I can't begin to attain it. This, however, does not take away the truth of who You are.
I see this morning how small my thinking is of You, how irreverent my worship is, yet I'm undone with how You Choose to use and Love me anyway. Although I may not ever be able to attain it, I want to spend the rest of my life trying to understand just How Great Thou Art.
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