Update and some commentary on Psalm 8

Greetings to any one out who may have stumbled onto this blog page on occasion. I haven't been around for quite some time. Lots of changes going on in my personal life that pretty much kept me away from recording any new songs, as well as keeping up with my blogger. Some of it has been good, but a lot of what I have been going through has been painful at times. The various triggers of late has brought me back to this temporary home for healing, catching up on recording, getting deeper into the Word and prayer, and connecting with whomever Abba Father wills for this season He has now called me into. 

A recording program that was given to me as a gift got wiped out from a computer crash some months ago, After installing it again, I was unable to use it because I couldn't locate the code to install the full features. Whatever I do record, it will pretty much be somewhat raw and very little of the effects I have come to enjoy as part of my recording experience. I hope to have a song recorded sometime this weekend.

I wanted to share with you a beautiful scripture that some of you might know. along with some commentary on what really spoke to my  own heart. I hope it will uplift and encourage you as well.

Psalm 8


 1 O יהוה (YHWH), our Master, how excellent is Your Name in all the earth, You who set Your splendour above the heavens!
 2 Out of the mouth of babes and infants You have founded strength, Because of Your adversaries, To put an end to enemy and avenger.
 3 For I see Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have established.
 4 What is man that You remember him? And the son of man that You visit him?
 5 Yet You have made him a little less than Elohim, And have crowned him with esteem and splendour.
 6 You made him rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all 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, Passing through the paths of the seas.
 9 O יהוה, our Master, How excellent is Your Name in all the earth!

The commentary I will be quoting from Is John Phillips. I have found his commentaries on Psalms and Proverbs to be a real blessing and inspiration that has given me a better depth of understanding as I read them.

It would take far too long to type out the whole  commentary on Psalm 8, so I chose to include what He wrote about verse 8 and 9. 

Care for Us the Way He Does

"And has crowned Him with glory and honor. You have made Him to have dominion over the heaven and the work of Your Hands. You have put all things under His feet. All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beast of the field.; the fowl of the air; and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas."

The writer of Hebrews relates this statement to Yeshua. He the second person of the Godhead, came down from the pinnacle of glory to be born in that Bethlehem barn. He was "made flesh," "made a little lower than the angels," that He might redeem ruined mankind. 

The present queen of England was a teenager at the outbreak of World War II. As soon as she was old enough she asked her father, King George VI, to allow her to join the armed forces and serve  Britain  as others were doing. Her father finally allowed her to join the  Auxiliary  Territorial Service as a private. She had a superior officer who took pleasure in bossing and bullying her, It was, "Private Windsor do this, Private Windsor do that." "Yes sergeant! Yes, sergeant," was all Elizabeth could say. She was made a little lower than the  noncommissioned  officers for the sake of her service to her people. But then, on February 6, 1951, she received word that her father was dead. From that moment on she was Queen of England. She was no longer "Private Windsor," to be baited and badgered by a small minded non commissioned officer. She was, "Her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II." She had entered into the position to which she had been born, a position resigned  temporarily for the call of duty. Never again did that officer address her as "Private Windsor."

Our glorious Lord has assumed again His throne on high. He has carried humanity with Him for there, in glory, He sits enthroned in a battle-scarred body of flesh! And we, the redeemed of Adams race, are to share that glory for all eternity.

In the meantime we are "a little lower than the angels." But that is only a temporary rank. We are under tutors and schoolmasters, but all that is going to end. Then we, too, shall be exalted higher than the highest archangels of glory, joint heirs with Messiah Yeshua of the ages to come.

"A little lower than the angels" is Yahweh's estimate of the human race. We are not " a little higher than the beasts"; we are"a little lower than the angels." Charles Darwin described man as "the most efficient animal ever to emerge on earth." What a degrading view of man! Man is not just an effient animal; he was made by an act of YHWH Elohim, and made in the image and likeness of Elohim. When the Son of Elohim stepped off the throne of the universe, to enter into human life He did not become "an efficient animal." He became a man. Yahweh has delivered into human hands dominion over the planet.  Thou, "has crowned him with glory and honor. and made him to have dominion over the work Your Hands; You have put all things under his feet....the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas." Six things are listed in the psalm. IN David's day man's dominion was displayed in his power over the animals, power to domesticate and tame them and turn them to his use.

Today man's dominion is demonstrated in his ability to subjugate the forces of nature. The atom smashers have unleashed and harnessed the energy of the universe. The code breakers have unraveled the mysteries of DNA and RNA. Psychologists have explored the workings of the human brain. The marks of man's genius are everywhere despite the fall. Man is "a little lower than the angels," not an efficient anthropoid ape. Yahweh having created us, companions us and crowns us and commissions us. It is almost too wonderful for words!

"O Yahweh our Yah how excellent is Your Name in all the earth!"
The first and last verses are exactly the same in this psalm. We call it "an envelope psalm" because the opening and closing statements wrap up the truth which lies between.

Now it may be that someone challenges:You say, "O Yahweh our Yah, how excellent is Your Name in all the earth." Very well-prove greatness-look at the moon and stars; They are the works of Yahweh's fingers, not His Hand. The Bible speaks of Yahweh's arm, it speaks of Yahweh's Hand, and it speaks of Yahweh's fingers. There is far less power in a finger than there is in an arm. To create stars and satellites and suns Elohim needed only His fingers! That's how great He is!

But there is evidence of an even greater magnitude, His grace. Yahweh can orbit the Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy, and a hundred million universes and toss them into space as mere handfuls of stardust-this Creator Yahweh God loves and cares for us! "O Yahweh our Yah, how excellent is Your Name in all the earth!" 

Yahweh Elohim has no more to say. If we still want to argue He will simply bring us back to verse 1. Very well, let's go over it again." The psalm begins where it ends, ends where it begins, and completes the cycle endlessly and forever. "How excellent is Thy Name in all the earth!"