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How Majestic is Your Name! ...
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014. What is it that is great and fantastic around us? What is it that we admire most? What is it, that we are excited about?
Majestic God …
We can be excited about a particular film. Or we like some sports, some activity, which makes us feel fantastic. We can be excited about another human, about a man or a woman, about a partner. We can be excited about some success we have reached, or something we have earned. Today, let us look into a psalm, where David is excited about the majestic God:
1 To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.1 A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? 5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, 7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, 8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8)
My majestic God? …
David names three areas for which he praises God. First, God takes care of even the weakest ones, the babies and infants, and there is strength involved. Second, he praises God for his power in creating the Universe. Third, he praises him for humans, for the glory and honor which is given to them.
I think that indeed humans bring with them a kind of glory. The way humans are made is to be like kings and like queens. They are beautiful in their bodies. Their minds are fantastic. Emotions, actions, grace … it can all be wonderful, if carried out with purity, excitement and care.
But is God our majestic God? Is he our personal majestic God? Is his kingdom in our hearts and our mind? Is his purity, his love, his strength flowing through our veins? Is he the majestic king of my life? (Roland Potthast) ... more texts