“WHAT IS MAN?”

Psalms 8:1-5                                       (ESV)

“1 O LORD, our LORD, how majestic is YOUR name in all the earth! YOU have set your glory above the heavens. 

2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, YOU have established strength because of YOUR foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. 

3 When I look at YOUR heavens, the work of YOUR fingers, the moon and the stars, which YOU have set in place, 

4 “WHAT IS MAN” that YOU are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? 

5 Yet YOU have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.”

Watching people who actually believe what they are fed by a television screen is quite laughable, but also disheartening at the same time!  We have digressed into a people who are controlled by whatever we are told, even if the people telling us things are not trustworthy.  What used to be one hour of national then local “news” when I was a child has morphed into 24/7 channels of propaganda driven opinions that are based on anything and everything except facts!  What drives people to believe such fabrications is ultimately nothing short of SIN and “the great deceiver”!

Although I am no longer on the spinning carousel that “this world” would have us to participate in, SEEing the effects of its disinformation on millions of people with their proverbial “heads in the sand” makes one wonder what happened to our world?  

Yet GOD loved us so much that HE sent HIS only SON (John 3:16! to provide a way of Salvation, IF WE ONLY BELIEVE!  And how do we thank HIM for the sacrifice of JESUS?  We don’t even seek WISDOM FROM GOD, instead we rely on a television screen to tell us what we should eat, where and when we should go, how we should dress, and on and on!  

“WHAT IS MAN” was asked in a very different perspective in the Scriptures above.  “WHAT IS MAN” meant we were so Blessed to have a CREATOR concerned with us that HE gave us a mind to think with, and all we do with that mind is think about ourselves!  Shouldn’t our CREATOR be the ONE we call out to when we are in turmoil?  

Yes, “WHAT IS MAN” that he thinks he is wise enough to make decisions on his own, WITHOUT THE LORD directing us?  We are swiftly heading to the JUDGEMENT DAY, and then we will realize exactly “WHAT IS MAN”!  Dustin Benge, provost of Union School of Theology in South Wales, recently tweeted “Psalm 2 is a stunning picture of how puny our wisdom, intellect, and plans are in the eyes of the sovereign of the universe”.  Which causes me to ask, “WHAT IS MAN” with our puny wisdom, intellect, and plans in the eyes of THE SOVEREIGN OF THE UNIVERSE???