Psalm 8 is a masterpiece of poetry and song . As Derek Kidner said this hymn celebrates the "glory and grace of God, rehearsing who He is and what He has done, and relating us and our world to Him; all with a masterly economy of words, in a spirit of mingled joy and awe. It brings to light the unexpectedness of God's ways in the roles He has assigned to the strong and the weak, the spectacular and the obscure, the multitudinous and the few but is begins and ends with God Himself, and its overriding them is 'How excellent is thy name'!" "O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have have set your glory above the heavens."
"O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have have set your glory above the heavens."
{Taken in Durango, Colorado}
{Taken by Sugar Lake in Minnesota}
"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, ..."
"You made man ruler over the works of your hands; you put everyhing under his feet; all the 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."
Indeed what is man, compared not only to creation, but especially to the God who created it all! This Creator God loves us, and that is the reason for our importance.
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