Psalms 8:3 The text is now to be used as the basis of the inquiry, What is the moral effect of studying great subjects? When we consider the heavens, four results are secured: I. We are impressed with God's infinite independence of human help. We cannot touch one of His stars; we cannot control th... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 8:3 These words express a conviction which lies at the root of all natural as well as all revealed religion, a conviction which may be regarded as a distinctive feature, which separates that conception of God's nature which is properly a religious one from that which is merely a philosophica... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 8:3 I. True greatness consists, not in weight and extension, but in intellectual power and moral worth. When the Psalmist looked up to the heavens, he was at first overwhelmed with a sense of his own littleness; but, on second thoughts, David bethought himself that this was an entire misconce... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 8:4 I. The thought which lies behind this text is of far deeper intensity now than when it was first uttered by the awe-stricken Psalmist. The author of this eighth Psalm could have had but a faint conception of the scale of creation compared with that at which we are now arriving. What is m... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 8:4 Man stands on the frontier of two worlds. There is a supernatural sphere, and man's connection with it is his glory, his endowments from it his highest treasures. "Made a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honour." I. What then _is_that connection? Can the supernatural... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 8:6 This Psalm is stamped with a worldwide breadth; it is of no nation; it is of all time; it shines with a light transcending that of mere human genius. We are brought face to face with these three: nature, man, God. I. Look, first, at the text in the light of Old Testament Scripture. It is... [ Continue Reading ]