Psalm 8:1-4: O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, who have set Your glory above the heavens! Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants you have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger. 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? For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor.
David is writing in this Psalm about what God thinks of man. Psalm 8 explains what is wrong and how to remedy it as the Psalm invites us to meet three kings who help in that explanation. Today we will look at the created king--Adam.
Man was created in God's image (8:5), and was created for God's glory (8:1). Man was created to serve as king over God's creation. However, man lost his throne and his crown through sin (Psalm 8:4). The story of Genesis 3 is that man wen t his own way and followed his own will. Sin marred God's image in man, and sin robbed man of God's glory. Sin ruined man, and man has all but ruined the creation. Yet this passage says that God crowns him with glory and honor.
The most important question in the Bible is: What think ye of Christ? The Psalms speak to that quite often. David here asks: What is man? God's opinion is quite different from evolution which sees man as an advanced animal, and communism, which sees man as an economic factor. Man is of great value. In fact, the Almighty thought so much of man and his plight that the Second Person of the Trinity was sent to this earth to take man's place. How thankful we should be for redemption.
No comments:
Post a Comment