“WHAT IS MAN?”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 637

June 27, 2023///

Psalm 8:3-4 (KJV)
³ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
⁴ What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

The message Bible says in verse four:

Compared to all this cosmic glory, why would you bother with puny, mortal man or be infatuated with Adam’s sons?

Have you ever looked at your own faults and failures, looked around at the culture we are living in and wondered why God puts up with it all?

We who believe and receive, do all we can to honor God in all we do. We pray for revival and show Love to others, but as we look around, we see a people who seemed to have lost all sense of morals.

Violence dominates the news and even our schools and homes are not free from hate and discord.

Do you wonder why God does not wipe all of the people on earth out and be done with our griping, rebellion, calling evil good and good evil, and always being entitled to what we want?

The answer LOVE! Unconditional Love. Love that bears all, knows all, and can do all!

God created us in His image. Then breathed into our lung’s breath!

He gave us choice, and desires fellowship with us!

Understand, he created beauty and splendor, he created trees, plants, and fishes. He created animals large and small, but into none of these did He breathe!

We are special, we are to be His reflection of Love and Compassion on earth and His Love never gives up on us!

He Loves all people and desires they come to Him and have real life. Life with joy and peace the world cannot give.

But there is the matter of choice. That makes us special. God wants a people to Love and Serve Him because they want to fellowship with the creator God. He does not want people who are made to follow Him.

Thus, the problem. Choice!

If the people around us are to choose life in Jesus, they must see something in our lives that make them want what we have deep inside.

Within each person is a void that can only be filled by the Spirit of the Livings God, as we receive all Jesus did for us!

Let’s look again at Psalm 8:3-4 but add verses 5-6.

Psalm 8:3-6 (KJV)
³When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
⁴ What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
⁵ For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
⁶ Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

All I can say is WOW! We are crowned with Glory and Honor! We have dominion and all things are under our feet!

Pause for a moment! If every truly born-again believer grasped the truths in those verses and walked in the authority given us by the Father, what a difference we would see in our Nation and our World.

Evil is loud and evil is proud, but the real power lies in recognizing who we are and the authority we have.

We can show the world around us, Jesus! Not by arguing or fighting but by seeing them as Jesus does. By letting the Love of God that takes away the sin of the world, flow through to the deceived ones all around.

Our son sent me a text one day to listen to the words of a Trace Adkins song, “More of Us”. I must tell you; I only listen to Gospel Music but because our son had asked, I listen to the one with the words on the screen.

The point of the song is that there are more good people than bad. Two lines in the song are: “We have learned to talk the talk, now it is time to walk the walk”!

I believe there are more believers than not. We must show the world our faith and not hide our light!

Back to the first question, God is mindful of us, the good and the deceived!

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Father, I come in Jesus’ name! I thank you for never giving up on us! Let us spend time in your presence and be so full of your glory that your Love pours from every action. As we set that as our goal, you will help us and pick us up when we falter. We cannot truly love without your presence in our lives. Let us understand that you created us and as we yield to you, you will mold us into a usable vessel. Use me, Lord God Almighty, to touch lives around me! Amen!

Love, MeMaw