Created With Dignity, Redeemed For Purpose-Psalms 8

We swap the noise of headlines for the clear voice of Psalm 8, moving from frozen sidewalks to burning awe. Worship reframes identity, weakness becomes a stage for God’s strength, and Jesus brings Psalm 8 to life by restoring our dignity and purpose.

• God’s majesty as the frame for perspective
• Why weakness and childlike praise display strength
• Awe at God’s mindfulness of small people
• Human dignity, stewardship, and the image of God
• How Psalm 8 points to Jesus in Hebrews 2
• Identity anchored beyond failure, status, or lack
• Closing call to trust Christ and live in worship

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Chapters

• 1:02 Cold Morning And Show Kickoff
• 1:29 Fake News And Discernment Book
• 2:55 Bad Dad Jokes Break
• 4:04 Introducing Psalm 8
• 5:45 Reading Psalm 8:1–9
• 6:53 God’s Majesty Sets Our Perspective
• 9:00 Strength Shown Through Weakness
• 10:49 Smallness And God’s Care
• 12:34 Human Dignity And Purpose
• 15:10 Psalm 8 Pointing To Jesus
• 17:23 Worship, Assurance, And Call To Faith

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:31

Hey guys, it's B-Rob. It is the Food for Thought Faith Cast, and I want to welcome you, Faith Cast fam, to the show on this Monday, January 26th. Everything is frozen outside, and I ain't going out there. You know what I'm saying? I am not going out there. It's too cold. Way too cold. You know, if this were the 70s or the 80s or the 90s or even the 2000s, I would go over the news headlines, but we know that the news is fake. And we are in an information war. And um we know it's fake, so we're not gonna go over no news. And uh speaking of fake news, uh, that's why you have to use discernment and check out my book called Discernment. You can get it on Lulu right now for six bucks. Ebook, it will be out on Amazon and all your other places, so you can buy it or try it or whatever you want to do. But the uh I think the book is pretty good, and um I think the message that God laid on my heart needs to be spread, whether you buy it or not. So I think what we're gonna do probably later today or tomorrow is I'm gonna put up chapter two of the audio, and so you can listen to it right here on the Food for Thought Faithcast. So that will be a nice gift to my FaithCast fam. Yep, yep, yep. We're gonna do that. So uh I've already got that recorded, so that that that'll work, and then uh I'll just eventually put the whole book up and uh you know that sort of thing. Well uh we're gonna do the bad dad joke. So why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was too tired. Why do scientists trust atoms? Why don't scientists trust atoms? Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. Yeah, that was stupid. Why did the golfer bring two pair of pants in case he got a hole in one? Nah. What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear. Yeah, I know it wasn't that funny. I know it wasn't that funny. Yeah, I would tell you a construction joke, but I'm still working on that. I used to be addicted to the hokey pokey, but I turned myself around. Okay, yeah. I'm gonna quit being stupid, but uh anyway, today we are going to look at Psalms eight, a psalm of David. So if you have your good books, turn to Psalms 8. We're gonna look at 1 through 9. And um, I used to, I was telling my wife this the other day. We were talking about camping, and she was like, we don't have no camping gear. Of course, her version of camping is a camper with a bed, kitchen, and a bathroom. My version of camping is uh uh just going out to the lake, finding a nice shore, putting a lawn chair there, and sleeping under the stars all night in the silence and listening to God. So, I mean, just have you ever slept outside on a clear night, looked up at the stars, and just felt amazing or even small? Well, obviously, here in um uh Psalms 8, King David did. It's uh it's a worship song written by David, and um he's basically looking at creation, the moon, the stars, the vastness of the universe, and instead of feeling meaningless, he was overwhelmed by something else. So let me read this. Um I'm gonna just read straight through one through nine, and then we'll go back and forth. Um, starting with one, that's Psalms 8, 1. Lord our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth? You have set your glory in the heavens. Through the praise of children and infants, you have established a stronghold against your enemies to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them? Human beings that you care for them. You have made them lower than the angels and crowned them with your glory and honor. You have made them rulers over your works of your hands. You put everything under their feet, all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, and the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the pass of a sea. Lord our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. Isn't that beautiful? David wrote some beautiful stuff. Two huge questions here. One was a huge worship song. First question, how great is our God? That's a good question, isn't it? Second question is why does God care about us too so much? Why does God care about us? Well, if you look at verse one, O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. David starts and ends this psalm the same way. With what? With praise. God's name represents his character, power, holiness, and authority. God's glory is not hidden, it's displayed everywhere. It's like a billboard for God. The sun, the mountains, the ocean, the stars. They all preach the same sermon without words. God is big, God is glorious, God is majestic, God is amazing. Praises. In the Psalm, you notice how David talks about people. He talks about God. But before he talks about people, he talks about God first because that is the right order. When we start with how big God is, it changes how we perceive things, how we perceive our problems, how we perceive our anxiety, how we perceive our fears, how we look in the mirror and perceive ourselves, knowing that we are good enough for God. In verse two, he talks about through the praise of children and infants. You have established strength. This is powerful. Because it shows you God doesn't only use the strong, he doesn't only use the educated, he doesn't only use the impressive. He actually uses children, he uses the weak, he uses the overlooked, he uses the last, he uses the humble, he uses the broken. Jesus actually quoted this when children praised him. If you look at Matthew chapter twenty-one, verse sixteen. Because the truth is God's strength is often displayed through human weakness. If you look all through the Bible, what the world calls small, God uses strategically. So, guys, the the moral of that is never disqualify yourself because you feel too young, too broken, too inexperienced, too ordinary. Because God specializes in using people like that for his eternal purposes. If that makes sense. Hopefully that does. So if you look at verses three and four, when I consider the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon, the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them. David's looking at the universe and asking, why would a God this big care about someone like me so small? It's not a question of a doubt he's using here, but it's a question of amazement. He's amazed. He's amazed by it. You can tell by the tone. Because God is the God who made the billions of stars, the endless galaxies, the massive oceans, and everything. But he's mindful of little old me, little old you. You know? It's not that he's just aware of you, it's not that he's just tolerating you, but he's actually mindful of you. He knows you. Because you're not an accident. You're not forgotten, you're not insignificant. You see, if God knows the stars by name, how much more does He know you? Just look at verses five and eight. You have made them lower than the angels and crowned them with your glory and honor. You made them the rulers of the works of your hands. You put everything under your feet, all flocks and herds and the animals of the wilds, the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, all that swim in the past of the seas. These are amazing. They even rhyme. It's kind of shocking. Even though we are small compared to creation, God gave us dignity. He gave us purpose, he gave us responsibility over everything. You see, human life has value not because of the things that we do, not because we're slaves, not because some of us are geniuses, not because some of us are talented, but because of who created us. You hear them, Francis? Hey, y'all be quiet.

unknown: 13:18

Shh.

SPEAKER_00: 13:21

You see, we're crowned with glory that reflects God's image. We're crowned with honor that's given by God Himself. It actually points back to Genesis. We are made in the image of God. I've said it before, and I'm going to say it again. You are not defined by your past. You are not a subject to your failures. Your bank account with nothing in it. The titles you lost, the relationships that didn't happen. Those are all things that God took you out of because you were going to hurt yourself. Because you are not defined by all those things. You're defined by your creator. You are defined by your Father in heaven. Nobody else. And like I said, he doesn't look at your past, he doesn't look at your failures, he doesn't look at your bank account. You see, if you look at Hebrews 2, if you look at Hebrews 2, verse 9, but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor, because he suffered death, so that by grace of God he might taste death for everyone. You see what's going on here? It tells us Psalm 8 ultimately points to Jesus. Jesus became lower than the angels. He took on human flesh, he suffered and died. He was crowned with glory and honor. You see, where Adam failed, Jesus succeeded. Where we failed as humans, where humanity failed, Jesus redeemed. Jesus restores our identity, our purpose, and our relationship with God through him, Christ. We are not just created with glory, we are redeemed by glory, for glory. Facts. Food for thought. Verse nine. David loved God so much. He ends it. Exactly where he begins. It's worship, humility, gratitude, obedience. Because David sees how big God is. He sees how small he was. But he's astonished at how much God still loves him. And you should be too. I am. Astonished. He leaves no stone unturned because he is the great I am. He is the father that will not leave. He is not a rolling stone. And just when you think you are not good enough, he has you in the palm of his hand. So, guys, I just want you to know that God loves you. And if you don't have a relationship with Jesus, you better get right.