In Praise of the Majesty of God

I ended the blog yesterday with the question, “How big is your God?” When we contemplate the greatness, the majesty, of God, where do we begin? One way to begin to fathom the magnificence of God is to take a look at His physical creation. A trip to the mountains brings reminders of the greatness of God’s creation; but a night view of the heavens from the top of a mountain puts the size of God relative to everything else into even more perspective. In the verses from Psalm 8 noted below, David, upon considering God’s creation, asks the question, “… what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?”

Psalm 8 (NIV) “O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. 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? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!”

How much does God care for us? When God ordains praise from the lips of the little ones of the earth, how much more should those of us who are adults praise him for his majesty and glory? Why would God honor man with the responsibility of ruling over his creation? Love can be the only answer, because God is love.