Recently
I have been astounded by thoughts from Psalm 8. Do you know this Psalm? It is the one about how magnificent the Lord
is. David’s words move us from
considering the moon and the stars which God’s hands have put in place to the
thought of pondering how such a magnificent Being could be so personally in
touch with man. I too am amazed by this
reality. I’m grateful to hear the choir
sing these words in an anthem and consider this again and again, but I will
never have an answer to the reason this reality is so. These thoughts, do however, take my heart to
a deeper trust in our magnificent God!
All of that I have thought
before, but my latest adventure into Psalm 8 has me stunned at verse 2. Because of Your adversaries, You have established a stronghold from the
mouths of children and nursing infants to silence the
enemy and the avenger. What?
Before I move on to the more astounding words in this Psalm, I must stop
and ponder the What, Who, Why of this solid fact of reality.
God created the world and this
proves how magnificent He is indeed. He
created angels and from them came His adversaries. They thought the world was pretty magnificent
too and decided that they wanted the world without the God who created it. They had free will so they used it to devise
a plan to get the world they wanted. They
saw one fatal flaw in God’s magnificent world and that was that He mistakenly
gave authority over His world to mankind.
Satan, himself, took the lead to trick Adam and Eve into rejecting God’s
instruction. By doing so Adam and Eve gave
over the magnificent world God had given to them. Everything seemed to move in their direction
of His adversaries save one spiritual reality they didn’t see coming. They saw the humans—children, infants—as weak
creatures that were duped into handing over God’s world to them. They had no idea that the mouths of children
and nursing infants, the weakest of all mankind is established the strength of
God so that they will not be able to overcome!
That strength is the love God has for mankind. God’s love for man is the strength He
established. God’s strength is
particularly evidenced from the mouths of infants and babes, the weakest state
of mankind.
At this very moment my first
granddaughter is growing in the womb of my daughter and I already relate to her
strength. Her very existence is turning
the people in her world upside down. She
was sent to us as a surprise, and her parents are busy scrapping the plans they
had for 2016 and following the new ones her life demands. God is moving heaven and earth to make room
for another essence of mankind from whom He establishes His strength.
God’s strength is love. He will never abandon or forsake the human
beings He has created. He will ever to
our dying day forever give each newborn child an opportunity to respond to the
love that is established and cannot be taken away. His love is free love; and just as it is
freely given, it must be freely received.
He will not force any one of His creations, as evidenced in the fact
that He has an enemy of among the creations that He Himself has made, to love
and trust Him back.
I love this reference to infants
and children. I love connecting the
strength God established long ago over enemies through the weakest of
mankind. Yes, God Your universe demands
that we see Your magnificence. That is
easy to recognize. Perhaps, I could have
come to that conclusion on my own.
However, the fact that Your strength is established from the mouths of
infants and children, the truest example of that being when You sent Jesus in
human form as an infant, now that is a wonder that stumped Your enemy! It causes my soul to see the magnificence of
You in a more magnificent way!
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