Psalm 8

“O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” (v1). The psalmist says that God’s name is glorified through “the moon and stars” and everything else, despite rebellion against His rule. Humans, made in God’s image, are crowned with “glory and honor” and put on earth to have “dominion” or charge of the earth, as God’s representatives. Sin twists that “dominion” into the abuse of power and leads to humans being God’s enemies (v2), but “out of the mouths of babes and infants” – the weak – God is glorified.

“You have put all things under his feet” (v6). Although Adam’s descendants failed, the Son of Man succeeded as God’s faithful One. In Him, as redeemed humans, we can glorify the Father too.