HOW MAJESTIC IS GOD'S NAME

Psalm 8

Beyond obedience, beyond the words in the Bible, beyond my spiritual disciplines and practices, beyond my knowledge, is God’s love for me.  Beyond religion and spirituality is God’s desire to be in a relationship with me.  God so loved the world that He sent His Son to redeem, forgive, and deliver His people who were living in the domain of darkness, away from His Presence, and transfer His children into the Kingdom of His Son.  Why?

“When I look at 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?”  (Psalm 8)

God didn’t see us as worthless sinners.  God saw us as worthwhile human beings that He had created for wonderful work to do for Him.  God’s original plan for making human beings was that we would reflect His image in the world and be people in His likeness.  Humans were given responsibility to care for the works of God’s hands, all that He had lovingly created.  He crowned them with glory and honor and wanted them to be fruitful and multiply, filling the earth, reflecting His glory and honor, and majesty.

Human beings failed but God did not change His plan or the way He saw His people.  He paid the cost of the death of His Son Jesus on the cross because He saw us worthwhile and worthy of the price.  That can only bring us to tears of humility and to a place of never ending love and worship of a majestic and awesome God.