0473. O Lord, How Excellent Is Thy Name

O Lord, How Excellent Is Thy Name

"O Lord oar Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth!" (Psa_8:1).

We have come into the 8th Psalm, which is a Psalm anticipating the millennial Kingdom. The Psalm begins and closes with the blessed statement: "O Lord our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth!" Of course, these words have not yet been fulfilled.

"Our Lord is now rejected,

And by the world disowned;

By the many still neglected,

And by the few enthroned."

There is a time coming, however, when the whole earth will acknowledge Jehovah and praise His name. How fittingly does this Psalm follow the one we have just been studying. Let us notice some of its marvelous statements.

1. "Thou hast set Thy glory (majesty) above the heavens." The word "glory," or "majesty" is regal. It has to do in this Psalm with the many crowns that shall rest upon our Lord, when He comes to reign. In that day He will still the enemy and the avenger. In that day He will ordain strength, out of the mouth of babes and sucklings, that He may "still the enemy and the avenger."

2. "What is man? * * Thou hast put all things under his feet." When we consider the heavens in all their magnificent greatness, we are prone to ask, "What is man?"

The sun, the central sphere of this universe, is a million and one-half times larger than our earth. On our earth are a billion and one-half people. Then–what is man! If the sun were a hollow ball, and our earth placed within, at its center, scientists tell us that the moon could keep its orbit around the earth, and still lack one hundred thousand miles of touching the circumference of the sun. Then–what is man!

To the first man Adam, God gave dominion over all the works of His hands. This dominion in part, was lost, when Adam sinned. A Second Man, the Last Adam, Jesus Christ the Son of God, came. To Him, satan, upon certain conditions, offered to give the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them. Christ spurned the offer.

The 8th Psalm anticipates the time when this dominion shall be restored. It proclaims: "Thou hast put all things under his feet." But, we see "not yet all things put under Him; but we see Jesus, * * crowned with glory and honour."

The time is soon coming, however, when our Lord will put one foot upon the sea, and one upon the land, and claim His dominion. Then, will the Son of Man and all who own Him, be crowned with glory and honor, then will "dominion over the works of Thy hands" be restored to man, in Christ. No marvel that the Psalmist begins this wonderful Psalm, and closes the same with the expression, "O Lord our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth!"

O Lord, how excellent, Thy name;

In Heaven above, on earth the same.

When Thou dost put beneath Thy feet

All things–when Thou dost reign replete

With all Thy saints. Then will there be

Above the heavens, Thy majesty.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR