Daily Nugget:
The purpose of good godly music is to glorify God, not the singer or the flesh, as so many modern Christian songs do today. This ancient Hebrew hymn in Psalm 8 does just that; it glorifies God.
Psalm 8 puts many of God’s accomplishments to music in:
- Verse 1, 9: God has done more than any man has ever done.
- Verse 1: He has made beautiful Heaven higher than our skies.
- Verse 2: God has protected His own.
- Verse 3: God has made the celestial bodies.
- Verse 4: Yet with all God has made, he has put man, that He also created, of great importance.
God has:
- Verse 4: Allowed His son to come to this Earth for a great purpose.
- Verse 5: Although man is not as important as angels, God has given him great responsibilities and respect.
- Verse 6-8: God has put man in charge of His earthly creation.
Today’s Thought:
“The difference between God and man is God gives, gives, gives, and forgives, while man gets, gets, gets, but still forgets.” — Author Unknown
Words to Understand:
Excellent: recognized for all outstanding accomplishments of great value
Gittith: a musical instrument played in Gath or an indication that this hymn should be sung to the tune of another popular song
Glory: outstanding beauty
Ordained: set down together, established
Today’s Reading:
Psalm 8
1 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3 ¶ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
