Psalm 8:1 (NKJV)
O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!
David is greatly impressed by God.
The two Lords in this verse are different in the Hebrew. The first is Jehovah, the covenant name of God. It called the tetragrammaton or "word with four letters", YHWH, which when pronounced sounds like Yahweh. It literally means "to be" or "He that is". Further, it means I Am Who I Am, the self-existent one. The second Lord is Adonai which indicates ownership or mastership. God is my owner and He claims my unrestricted devotion and obedience.
How high is God? He is not in the Heavens, a part of the created…He is above the heavens, he exists outside of space and time!
Ephesians 4:10
He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.
David is impressed with God's creation.
Psalm 8:3-4
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?
The carnal mind sees God in nothing while the spiritual mind sees God in everything.
Who is man? This is the great question of philosophy. The world's answer is that man is just another animal. Shakespeare said in Macbeth:
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
God's answer is different. God says we are created in His image. God has given us dominion over the earth.
Psalm 8:5-8
For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet
This is the way it was meant to be. It did not last very long, only until we in Adam rebelled and stopped believing. But those who are in Christ have been redeemed and there is a future glory awaiting:
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
What is the action plan after reading Psalm 8?
- Marvel at every sunset and be awed by the stars
- Wonder in amazement at the Creator of the Universe
- Invite Jesus into your life
- Meditate on who you are in Christ