Psalm 8
NIV (v9) – ‘LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!’
ESV (v9) – ‘O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!’
I love this Psalm, we looked at this Psalm way back on April 20th last year. After the two previous ones where the David seems to be in a valley, he has come onto the mountain top with this one, and from there, he views all he can see, the majesty of the Lord’s name in all the earth, the glory of the Lord displayed in the heavens, he sees the stars, the moon, and stands in awe and then his thoughts then turn to wonder about the fact that God in all his glory and his magnificence and his majesty thinks of man and cares for him.
It is sobering to stop and think that God should be mindful of us, that he should care for you and should care for me, when we consider the rebellion that took place in the garden of Eden, the ongoing depravity of human nature and man’s selfishness and pride which we as individuals also inherited and yet God still cares, so much so that he has demonstrated his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. As John reminds us ‘In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.’ (1 John 4:10)
Just stop and pause for a moment on the wonder of the love of God.
David ends this Psalm in the same way that he started it, ‘O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!’ His heart has been filled with wonder, and as a result he wants that all the glory goes to the one who deserves it, to the one to whom it rightfully belongs, he exalts the LORD, calling him his Lord, and then magnifies his name, he wants to ensure that just as God had thought of him, so he also wanted to set his thoughts toward God, and toward his glory.
Today may we also turn our thought toward God and toward his glory