Majesty Of God's Names预览

The beginning of Psalm 8 is one of the most popular and most frequently quoted verses in all Scripture about the splendor of God’s name: 

O LORD, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!
Psalm 8:1

The names of God reflect the majesty and glory that intrinsically rest within Him. His name is nothing short of pure majesty. Discovering and experiencing the manifestation of His names in your life will usher you directly into the presence of our majestic God. 

My wife Lois and I recently took a trip to Alaska with several hundred partners and ministry supporters of our radio ministry, The Urban Alternative. Alaska is one of our favorite places to visit, simply because of its relaxing nature and inspiring beauty. Yet something special happened on this trip. Our cruise guide, who had hosted well over 90 cruises in the same area, told us he’d never seen the weather so perfect. Each day the skies were clear and beautiful, giving us multiple opportunities to marvel at the splendor of God’s creation. 

In fact, things were so perfect that our guide named that trip the atheist cruise. He said, “If someone was an atheist when they got on this cruise, they couldn’t be by the time it was over.”

This is the kind of majesty David wrote about in Psalm 8. Like my wife and me, David had been awed by the splendor of God’s creation. He responded by recognizing his own smallness and insignificance in comparison to the majesty of God’s name expressed through creation: 

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?
Psalm 8:3-4

Keep in mind,  you won’t experience the power of His names in your life if you’ve got an inflated sense of your own worth. 

The majesty of God is reserved for those who know enough to know they don’t know much of anything at all. In other words, you can’t know the splendor of God’s names until you come to grips with the smallness of your own.