DAILY DEVOTIONAL – March 16, 2021
“Unbelievably Believable”
Prayer: Our Gracious God, You leave us in awe and wonder with Your love for us sinners. We only know what love is through Your going to such incredible lengths to forgive us and save us in the blood of Your Son Christ. Help us each day to love You as we should. In Jesus Name, Amen.
Scripture: Psalm 8
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.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Devotional – “Unbelievably Believable”
David, in Psalm 8, is marveling at the incredible lengths God went to in order to rescue you and I from becoming separated from Him for eternity.
David almost has a sense of disbelief as he says in verse 4:
“what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?”
If we’re honest, it is almost unbelievable isn’t it? It’s not hard to believe that God exists. Our conscience bears witness to us, the fact that we are alive bears witness to us and creation itself declares the majesty of our Creator God. However, it is harder to believe that the Almighty and Eternal God of all, who is perfectly holy and righteous, who had every justifiable reason to write us off as a humanity because of our sin and rebellion against His love, would instead infiltrate this wicked world by sending His Son Jesus Christ, live the perfect life of faith we were intended to live, subject Himself to the horrors of our sin on the cross, and even die our death and rise again to give us new life.
You and I were imprisoned and shackled by our sin and condemned to die. But then, for reasons hard for our sinful and selfish minds to understand or explain, God gave up His one and only Son Jesus to rescue us. Although it may be hard for us to understand, it is not hard to believe and really should not surprise us at all because this is what God promised to do since the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden. Through every page of Scripture written and preserved over thousands of years, God promises a Savior. In fact, the book of Hebrews in the NT recalls Psalm 8 and applies it as a fulfilled prophecy that foretold of the kind of Savior God would send to redeem us. He would be:
“a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet.”
So it is we see Jesus, “who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” – Philippians 2:6-11
The majesty of God as David says is displayed by the amazing lengths to which He went in order to save us from certain death, and just as certain as Christ rose again from the grave, so to Christ is coming again soon to bring us home and into His presence for all of eternity.
Thanks for spending some devotional time with me today everyone. Remember, God has forgiven yesterday, is with you today and has already taken care of tomorrow. Amen.
