The psalmist begins by praising and glorifying God’s name. He also recognizes him as the great architect of the world and all that is contained therein. Verse two begs the question how can any one look at an infant and say that it happened by sheer chance, apart from a creator. This revelation leaves even his enemies to acquiesce that he is God. Observing the universe and its intricate workings are testimonies of God’s existence to both the believer and the unbeliever.
Verse four poses the question, “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him” (Psalm 8:4)? We seem very insignificant when compared to the vastness of God’s infinite universe. Bullock (2001) says it this way, “The beauty of God’s
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We are encouraged to pass it down from generation to generation that it might not be forgotten. Hoping our children will learn from the mistakes of our rebellious pasts, wherein we erred from the truth and paid the consequences of our disobedience. The psalmist recalls the Israelite’s wilderness experience, bringing to remembrance their repeated disobedience and rebelliousness in the face of God’s continued provision. After witnessing his miraculous works and in spite of their first-hand account, they soon forgot when faced with temptation and adversity. Christians today respond much the same way. No matter how God blesses us when trouble or trials come we are quick to question God and what we perceive as his lack of concern for us. Often we become doubtful of his ability to provide for and keep us.
We are also reminded in this passage that the Israelites were never satisfied. God could never do enough for them. Even though he fed them with angel food they complained they wanted meat, implying God’s provision was insufficient. Kidner (1975) surmises, “Evidently the more God gives, the less we appreciate it” (p. 312). As American Christians, we are blessed abundantly, but our greed is never satisfied. Always wanting bigger and better than what we already have with little thought to the consequences of our fleshly
Thank you for your text and for directing me to Psalm 103, it is one of my favorites. As far as my health, I have some fairly good days where the pain is controlled with the medication and others that are not, well, not as good. I go for my next five-day treatment next Monday. I was told that patience is required in all of this as full recovery for patients with this condition is slow, but successful in the majority of cases. Carla is doing a little better, but the last bit of the cold is hanging on as colds usually take a week or two to pass. She has to fly out early tomorrow to the Dominican Republic for her work and will be back late the following day. Damaris now has a lady that lives her and is her full-time caregiver. She really likes
When you look around and gaze at the beautiful creation before you, do you reflect on how amazing God is? God made the creation, man, and everything surrounding the two. There are many different worldviews. This paper will focus on the Christian worldview. The Christian worldview involves God, humanity, Jesus, and restoration.
Here is the thrust of the Psalmist. His push for what it takes to acquire God’s powerful healing. It’s the sacrifice required to gain the Lord’s acceptance. This is in terms of what is required within a person to be available to God. Without a willing spirit (vs.12b), God could not respond to a request. Real change would require the participant to offer something. More than willingness is brokenness, of heart and soul. Remorse must be present in the person. There must be true willingness for change. God needs a person to be willing to do the
The Bay Psalm Book is most notable for being the first book printed on American soil. It was a collection of metrical psalms compiled by the Puritans of new England and published in 1640, first printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Bay Psalm Book contained metrical translations of every psalm from the Hebrew, and was compiled by Richard Mather, grandfather of the famous puritan preacher Cotton Mather. Richard Mather himself contributed to the translations, along with a number of other Puritan scholars.
Have you ever had that feeling that something was about to happen? You don’t know what it is, but something is going on. The world is teetering, it is on the edge, everyone knows it, everyone can sense that feeling that something is about to break, some major, life changing event is about to take place, but no one knows for sure what it is.
Following the Israelites them complained again about not having the same food they once did when they were in Egypt. “The rabble among them had a strong craving; and the Israelites also wept again, and said, “If only we had some meat to eat!” Then they reminisced about when they were in Egypt and the variety of foods they had available. The manna was not sufficient for them. The Lord then sent in great number quail to teach them a lesson. They had more meat not then what they had asked for. The lesson was about greed. The Israelites already had food, they were not going hungry. Instead of being grateful they chose to complain and that is why God sent the great numbers of quail. “But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was
Last fall one of my classmates brought Psalm 91 to my attention. I had been going through a tough time for several years and another cutting event had just taken place. I felt as if I was at the end of my rope. She reached out to me and told me to hang onto this Psalm, that it can be my refuge as I walk through this difficult journey. I like what Kidner says about dangers, “Most of these dangers are of a kind which strike unseen, against which the strong are helpless as the weak” (Kidner, 1973, p. 364). This is how I felt when going through this latest turmoil. I could not physically see the danger, but the pain of the danger enveloped me like a thick and heavy fog. I felt completely helpless and weak, but Psalm 91 gave me an atmosphere
Composed on only 9 verses, Psalm 8 ends two of its verses with semicolon and one verse with a colon. Verse 6 is the embodiment of the all God has done for humanity and ends with a colon, which signifies further explanation is sure to follow. It states, “Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:” (118). The colon emphasizes God’s generosity, and functions as a grammatical representation of the transition of power from God to man over that of the beasts listed in the next verse. The psalmist must have felt overwhelmed with so much emotion, the accompanying music may have been as upbeat as one of Tchaikovsky’s piano piece or a modern day rap battle. Psalm 8 is like seeing the Milky Way
The last segment of the Psalm is Moses’ appeal to God for him to return his presence to his people: “Return, O LORD, how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.” Not only should God return, but Moses asks for complete restoration and for God to bless the work of man: “Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
The psalmist is aware of being part of the corpus piorum and this influences the way he prays not only for himself but for the whole community as one body. Here the concept of “fear of YHWH” (the beginning of wisdom) is prominent. The psalmist faith allows him to perceive with his senses the goodness of the YHWH. “Taste and see that the Lord is good” shows that those who belong to God and seek his good pleasure are able to perceive God’s presence in all things, while the wicked see evil everywhere.
God expressed his glory by infants in Psalm 8:2. When looking into the heavens at the moon and stars that our creator has made then what is the importance of mankind and why would such an awesome creator want to pay any attention to us? To he reason is because we are God made and not self-made. We are made in the image of God and he loves us so much that he longs for a one-on-one relationship with each of us. He gave his only begotten son Jesus Christ so that we are able to come to the Father and be with him to live an eternal life.
Praise, Worship, Singing to God... Christian music is a way to talk to our God. It can be rap, pop, country Or just about any genre. Christian music can get you in your feels or get you pumped up. Like I believe that Christian music is the best music because it is clean, it is real, and because it brings us closer to God.
From the opening of Scripture God’s power is on display as he creates ex nihilo, but before such an awesome display can even be considered, one must contemplate that God is. Numerous creeds throughout history have begun with the affirmation, “I believe in God.” The existence of God is seen in the intricate designs and the complexity of the universe, but this alone cannot fully establish the existence of the God described and revealed to us in Scripture. The biblical God is more than just a creator of a deistic universe; his power extends beyond.
Look at verse 4…The Israelites are now complaining about their meal selection. They don’t like what’s on the menu. They want something different. The Bible says they craved other food. That little word crave is very important. It means to lust greatly or to have greedy desires. It is an intense yearning that is controlled by the senses. The Israelites didn’t just want a little bit of meat, they were obsessed about it. They had the “I got to have it kind of cravings if I’m going to be happy. And if I don’t get what I want I am going to be miserable.” It’s all they thought
There are 150 psalms in the Book of Psalms that were written over the span of 800 years. Most of the Psalms written were made to be sung. There are two main genres of Psalms, which are laments and hymns. David is know to have written 73 psalms, Asaph wrote 12, the sons of Korah wrote 11, Solomon wrote 2, Moses wrote 1 and 50 are anonymous . Although 50 were anonymous, David was certainly the author of the majority of the Psalms.