Oh LORD our Lord, How Majestic Is Your Name!

Psalms 8 (ESV) 1 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!

First, we must reconcile the condition of the moment to ensure it doesn’t affect our praise

Psalms 118:24-25 (ESV) 24 This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Save us, we pray, O LORD! O LORD, we pray, give us success! 

James 1:2-4 (ESV) 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (ESV) 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Now…. 

Verse 1: O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.

LORD (Yehovah/Jehovah) our Lord (adon) 

• God’s proper name and His position (God our Master)  
• How majestic is YOUR name and glory is above ALL…

Verse 2: Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

It is hard to think of anything more weak and helpless than a baby; yet the same God who can ordain strength out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants can give strength and support to me in the midst of my weakness. – Dr David Guzik 

Matthew 21:14-16 (ESV) 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”

Verses 3-4: 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?

When we look at the work of God…. Its vast, majestic and beyond total comprehension…. 

• How is it that God made that AND still sees me? 

Verses 6-8: 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.

David reveals the position of man….. 

• A little lower than the heavenly beings BUT crowned him with glory and honor. 

You have crowned him with glory and honor: Though for a little while set lower than the angels, man’s destiny is one day to be crowned with a glory and honor that surpasses even the angels. It is the destiny of redeemed men and women to one day be lifted above the angels. – Dr. David Guzik

• God gave man dominion over HIS creation….. God cared for us enough to make us above the animals of the land, air and sea. (we have a responsibility to care for this world God set us in and over)

“Although made in God’s image and ordained to become increasingly like the God to whom they look, men and women have turned their backs on God. And since they will not look upward to God, which is their privilege and duty, they actually look downward to the beasts and so become increasingly like them.” – James Boice

David ends where he started…. 

Verse 9: O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

When thinking over all God has given to man and how God cares for him…. It made him praise God even more. 

• It’s our time and duty to praise God and ALL that He is.