PSALM 8 1; 3-5; 9 The Speck In The Apple (Having a God's-Eyed-View)

Greetings...

"O Lord...our Lord...How majestic is your name in all the earth...who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!" (Psalm 8:1) "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? Yet You have made him a little lower than God...and You crown him with glory and majesty! (Psalm 8:3-5) "O Lord, our Lord...How majestic is Your name in all the earth!" (Psalm 8:9)

Think of the smallest speck that you could possibly think of...and then think of the largest object that you could imagine. Our majestic God...created the wonderful heavens and earth, and planted and populated the freshly created earth with the speck...man...comparitively speaking.

Now a speck...compared to God is small...but small does not mean that it is not treasured, valuable, of worth to God. Consider that His people are considered to be the "apple of His eye."
Apple means...(1) the little man of the eye (2) the pupil or ball of the eye. (3) the middle
When someone or thing comes towards your eyes...the natural instinct is to protect, blink, flinch...because our eyes...our sight is precious. So it is with us...the speck ( no pun intended).
(Deuteronomy 32:10; Zechariah 2:8; Psalm 17:8; Proverbs 7:2)

After God created...God said..."Let Us make man in Our image...according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. God created man in His own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female, He created them."
(Genesis 1:26-27)

Here's the big question...God...what do you think of this speck? "What is man (the speck) that You take thought of him...and the son of man that You care for him?" (Psalm 8:4)

Here's the big answer...The Majestic God...created the speck...in His image...which made the speck...in God's eye (again...no pun intended) to be...a little lower than God...and crowned him (the speck) with glory and majesty, and dominion over the works of God's hands and put all things under his feet."(Psalm 8:5; Genesis 1:26-31)

NOTE: The speck was given dominion over the created by the Creator.

NOTE: "The Psalmist views man, created in God's image, as a little lower than God. In Hebrews 2:6-8...the passage is applied to JESUS...as the Son of Man. (Ryrie Study Bible note on Psalm 8:5)

Well...the Psalmist starts off with a declaration of the majesty of the Lord's name in ALL the earth and displayed splendor above the heavens...and ends with a declaration of the majestic Lord's name in ALL the earth. (Psalm 8:1; Psalm 8:9)

Love and Majestic Kisses
Rodney "The Speck" Boyd