Psalm 8:1    The Majestic Name
      The Hebrew word for Lord is a four-letter word (tetragrammaton) that was not used in normal conversation for it was considered too sacred. The Hebrew language did not include vowels (in fact Hebrew newspapers today still use just consonants) and so YHWH became the name of the LORD. It was probably pronounced Yah’weh. It literally means, “I was, I AM, I always will be.”

David has written this beautiful Psalm, loved and memorized by many, as an exaltation of the power and glory of the name of the Lord throughout the earth. So far as God is concerned, everything is in the name. It is indeed sacred but just as He is THE LORD, He is also OUR LORD! His name is glorified and worshipped throughout the entire earth, it is only man who refuses to acknowledge Him. Even creation knows who its Maker is and offers praise and glory, for created things are not part of the moral universe. Every unfolding flower bud, every birdsong, every rustling leaf reflects the glory of the One who created it. And if we cannot see the Lord in things on the earth He calls us to look up, to look at the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets; all of this is created to fill us with awe and wonder and to exclaim, “How great is the Lord – our Lord!” How wonderful this is compared to the soul-less, hopeless theories of arrogant men. The Apostle Paul finds himself equally flabbergasted by the ignorance of his fellow man, he writes in Romans 1:18  “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”

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