The Lord's Glory And Man's Dignity
written at Thursday, September 24, 2009
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!
Was reading through Psalms 8, immediately a feeling surged through me at an instant. Whatever that was on my mind, the distractions that were around me somehow immediately faded away even from the back of my mind. As I read and contemplate through the magnitude of His glory, His majesty, all the little problems that we face each day somehow just seems like a drop of water in a vast ocean. I am reminded through this Psalm that He is Lord.
The Lord's Glory And Man's Dignity
written at Thursday, September 24, 2009
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!
Was reading through Psalms 8, immediately a feeling surged through me at an instant. Whatever that was on my mind, the distractions that were around me somehow immediately faded away even from the back of my mind. As I read and contemplate through the magnitude of His glory, His majesty, all the little problems that we face each day somehow just seems like a drop of water in a vast ocean. I am reminded through this Psalm that He is Lord.
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What matters supremely, therefore, is not
in the last analysis, the fact that I know God,
but the larger fact which underlies it --
the fact that He knows me.
J. I. Packer
