Psalm 8 The Majesty Of God Series

Cole: How can we apply this psalm?

-We should bow in awe before our majestic Creator! This psalm should humble us and cause us to marvel at God’s grace and love in caring for us by sending His Son as our Savior.

-We should treat each person with value and respect as beings created in God’s image. John Piper has said, “You cannot worship and glorify the majesty of God while treating his supreme creation with contempt.” (http://www.desiringod.org/ResourceLibrary/Sermons/ ByScripture/1/860_What_Is_Man/) Christians must oppose all racism. We must treat all people with respect.

-We value the creation account and do not support any other theories that leave God out of the equation.

-We should be good stewards of God’s creation. While modern man worships the creation rather than the Creator, we should not neglect the fact that we are the stewards over God’s creation. We should oppose the greed that often destroys creation with no regard for its beauty and preservation.

-We should enjoy God through his creation.

Keller’s Three reflective questions for devotional meditation

-Adore - What did you learn about God for which you could praise or thank him?

-Admit - What did you learn about yourself for which you could repent?

-Aspire - What did you learn about life that you could aspire to, ask for, and act on?

Conclusion

Faughn: God is truly majestic. Both the most brilliant star and the tiniest baby house his glory…. He deserves not only our words of praise, but also the commitment of our hearts and minds to those words. 

2. In this Psalm we see God’s Glory all around us. (Cloer) In the inanimate things - stars, moon, sun, trees, hills, and grass. Without tongues, they compel us to praise Him! In intelligent life. Humans are a marvel to consider. Every part of a human declares the Maker’s praise. In non-intelligent life. The living creatures fulfill

balance of nature, the inexplicable character of the wildlife, and the exactness of their habitat all inspire a chorus of praise for these wildlife.

We should always be alert to the foreshadowing of Jesus in the Psalms.

Hebrews 2:6-9 But there is a place where someone has testified: “What is mankind that you are mindful of them,  a son of man that you care for him? 7 You made them a little lower than the angels;  you crowned them with glory and honor 8 and put everything under their feet.” In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them. 9 But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

Smith: The wonderful theologian J. I. Packer says of the era in which we live, “We stand at the end of four centuries of God shrinking” in the public mind…He gets smaller while we get bigger. The Bible does not see it this way. David did not see it this way. We are small. God is great! Let us make his name magnificent throughout the earth!