Psalm 8

"O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth."  Psalm 8:1 & 9
"When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place, what is man that You are mindful of Him, the son of man that You care for Him?"  Psalm 8:3-4

What a great and awesome God we serve!  David said in Psalm 8:1, "O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!"  We see God's glory and majesty in His provision of salvation for us. We also see God's glory in the awesomeness of His creation all around us.  We see God's glory in the vastness of outer space and in the perfect alignment of all the planets.  We see God's glory in the multitude of galaxies in the universe and in the multitude and glory of the stars.  When we think of the majesty and awesomeness of our God, we should burst out in song and praise to Him.  Psalm 8:2 says that God has "ordained praise" even "from the lips of children and infants."  God does this to "silence the foe and avenger."  Because of God's glory shown in His creation, the Lord evokes the praise of even little children.  Hence, Satan's powers are silenced!

The psalmist, David, goes on to say in Psalm 8:3-4, "When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place, what is man that You are mindful of Him, the son of man that You care for Him?"  Meditate on the wonder of God's love  for us.  The great God of this awesome universe is "mindful" of us, His children!  We are but a speck in the vastness of of God's creation.  In spite of this, the Lord is "mindful"  of us!

Being mindful of us doesn't just entail the Lord being aware of our existence.  Rather, the Lord loves us with an eternal love and cares about all our needs.  He loves us so much, that He even knows us each individually by name!  John 10:3b says, "He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out." God, the Father, loves us more than anything else in all His creation; and He proved that love by coming to this earth in the person of His Son, Jesus.  He loved us so much  that He was willing to give His very Son as a sacrifice for our sins, so we might have eternal life!

What is even more astonishing is that the great God of the universe has crowned us, His children, with glory and honor and dominion over everything else in His creation!  We were created to rule over God's creation and to bring glory and honor to the Lord in the process.  Nothing else in all God's creation was created to consciously bring glory and praise to God.  Only humans were created in God's image.  Only humans were placed on this earth to  reflect the Lord in our character, attitudes, and actions.

Sin temporarily spoiled our ability to do this.  However, because of Christ's sacrifice on the cross for our sins and the Holy Spirit living in us, we can once again begin to live holy lives for the Lord's glory!  We alone of all God's creation have eternal souls which can and must be lived for the Lord's glory.  This is our purpose and reason for being on this earth.  "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God."  (I Corinthians 10:31)