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Intro
Point 1 – The glory of God in his creation
Question: Do you grasp the immensity of God glory in his creation?
Illustration: Horses that are used to drive carts or carriages have blinders put on them.
This stops them from becoming distracted or panicked by what is behind or beside them.
It helps the driver get them from point A to B without meandering or pausing.
Point: In a very similar to do this.
It is not intentional, but in the business of our lives and the desire to achieve our goals we fix blinders to our eyes, to our time.
This is great for getting from point A to point B. But how many wonderful things in life and creation do we plod right past in the process.
How much of Gods majesty are we blinded to.
This morning I want to spend some time, taking off those blinders.
Put off reaching the next goal for a moment and stop and smell the roses.
Let us do as the Psalmist is doing and consider the immensity of God’s glory in his creation.
And be for a time in awe of God.
Bible:
1 O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
Here we begin to get a feel for exactly where the psalmist was when he first began to muse upon this psalm.
He was on a night time stroll, or perhaps laying down and staring up at the moon and stars.
To get into the psalmist shoes, and mind we should do the same.
Moon and Stars slide
And because we cannot just sit here in silence for the next few minutes I thought I would share some space information that I gathered from a Louie Giglio video.
These are not facts so that we might understand.
Because as you will see in a moment, you cannot grasp the dimensions of God’s heavenly creation like a rubber ball in your hand.
No we cannot grasp space, as you will see.
Space grasps us.
Many of you will know that we live inside of the Milkyway Galaxy.
More to add
Application: In answer to the question I asked at the start of this point.
Do you grasp the immensity of God’s glory in his creation, the answer is of course No!
Even where we to watch the best highlights reel of all time, and spend all of eternity staring into the stars we would never come to a point where we even perceived of the outside dimensions of God’s glory in creation.
As the Psalmist said in v1 “You have set your glory above the heavens”.
It extends even beyond this wonderful creation.
But I pray that this morning, we have for a moment been able to throw aside the blinkers and simply be in Awe for God!
And say along with the psalmist “O Lord, our Lord, how Majestic is your name in all the earth”.
Point 2 – Man’s tiny stature
Question: …it is here, in this space of considering the majesty of God that the psalmist expresses a feeling in the form of a question.
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
This is not a question like “tell me God, what is man for?
or made off?”.
It is a question highlighting the Psalmists feeling of tininess and powerlessness.
In the light of God’s immense majesty displayed in the heavens we are tiny.
We are powerless, and to paint an extreme picture we are pathetic.
Last Sunday My family and I were on a plane coming into Adelaide.
As we flew over north Adelaide the lives of people playing out at a distance.
I could see cars like ants, moving from place to place.
I could see houses, expensive and cheap.
I could see varying yard sizes filled with pools and trampolines.
And they where all… tiny and insignificant.
The material stuff we strive for, some times for our entire lives… reduced to a kids play miniatures.
8:2 speaks of babies and infants.
There is nothing weaker.
Nothing more incapable than a new born baby.
This is how the psalmist is feeling in light of considering the immensity of God’s Majesty.
That we are, kinda pathetic.
How can such a majestic God, that creates the stars and moons, and galaxies on scales that we cannot conceive of care for us?
Such small irrelevant creatures in the universe.
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
What a crap feeling.
There is a sense of worthlessness here.
Point 3 – Man’s elevated position
Question: But 4 is not where the psalm ends.
Praise God.
The psalmist quickly goes on and provides an answer to the question of as verse 5 shows, it is not the right feeling.
We are not left thinking that man is nothing in the eyes of God.
But told that God has placed us, in a position of rulership over all of this immense, and beautiful creation.
Bible:
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.
Point: The reason that the Psalmist is proclaiming the majesty of God in this psalm is not the size of creation.
But his awe that God would put the infants in a position of rulership over all of it.
That God would put you and I in a position of stewardship overall of creation.
An awe that God would value humanity so much more than all the rest of creation.
We are still small, But it is God’s elevation of the small, the innocent, the weak to be and do the incredible that is truly majestic about him.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
These versus set up a dynamic at the beginning of the of the psalm for us to understand.
How does God show his strength?
How does he beat his foes?
His enemies?
And those that would oppose him?
How does God rule his vast creation?
He shows his strength in the faithful cry of babies.
Not strong capable men and women.
Capable of great feats of strength, intellect or charisma.
But the simple faithful word of a child.
What does a baby bring to the table of war?
Or to a rulers throne?
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