Psalms 8:3-5
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,
and the son of man that you care for him?
Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
Tag: God Honors Man - Man’s Response?
What we read in the above passage is the wonder and majesty of God as it benefits man. God has established man at the top of the food chain. Note what the writer goes on to say:
Psalms 8:6-8
You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
Man is king!! What is man’s response to this authority God gives him? What is man’s response to the privilege God gives him? What is man’s response to the fact that God “cares” for him? We don’t have to read much in God’s Word to answer those questions. In Genesis 11, after man was told to go out and fill the earth, we have a good example of man’s response to God bestowing him with breath honor:
Genesis 11:1-4
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”
Man’s response to God’s goodness is to “make a name for ourselves.” The writer of the above Psalm tells us that our response should be praise and glory to God’s name. We can spend our time on this earth establishing our own name, or, we can spend time praising and glorifying God’s name. That is the proper response to God’s goodness to us.
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