Something Greater

Psalm 8: How Majestic Is Your Name! To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him 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, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalms 8:1-9 (ESV) What do y...

Anger and Glory Stephen concluded his counter-accusation against the religious rulers who had arrested him. Their immediate reaction was anger. "Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him." Acts 7:54 (ESV) "These things" encapsulates all of Stephen's defensive argument, beginning with the second verse of Chapter 7. God promised land to the descendents of Abraham. More than only land, God's promise included a relationship of faith and worship , sealed by the covenant of circumcision. Despite jealous betrayal, slavery, wealth, famine, oppression, murder, and persecution, some of the descendents of Abraham held faith with the covenant, although not all. God formed Moses into His great Deliverer and Lawgiver, bringing the Israelites out of the oppression of Egypt . God raised David to be His Warrior King, defeating all enemies and securing for Israel their own land. God sat Solomon on a throne tha...