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David begins this Psalms with You have searched and know me. Yet he ends with Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. We need to know what God knows about us. Back in Genesis 22 when Abraham, being obedient to the Lord, takes his son up to the mountain to offer him as a sacrifice on the altar, the Lord tells him to stop because now I know you fear God (verse 12). But In Genesis 18:19 the Lord says, "For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him." He already knew the heart of Abraham, before Isaac was born. Yet, years later Abraham has an experience where he now knows what God knows about him and through that experience he receives the blessing. God searches our hearts and knows us, but we must have an experience where we know what God knows about us. Since we have received Jesus and all he did for us on the cross and resurrection, God sees us through the blood of the Lamb, blameless and unreprovable. We must see what he sees and that comes from have God experiences.

Everything was created from the Word of God - God said, Let there be and creation appeard. God's Word never returns void but continues to perform what it was sent to perform, therefore we see the universe continue to expand. Though the Hubble telescope you can see galaxies billions of light years away. God's expanding heavens is greater than what we can see with our eyes, yet man is always drawn there. There is an old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes a picture says more than what we can express in words. So the psalmist says of the heavens. It speaks of the awesomeness of our God. For the created is not greater than the creator. After admiring the manifested Word of God, the psalmist then turns to the written Word of God. After seeing the majesty of the spoken Word of God that continues to give God glory, the paalmist looks at the benifits of studying the written Word of God. He knew that the written Word is life changing, reaving things in our lives that are not true and replacing them with Truth - Jesus Christ. I so love the Word. It reveals the truth of who God and in doing so I find the truth about myself in the scriptures. The spirit of the word gives life. David ends with "May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer." David knows that God not only hears what you say, but also hears what you meditate - think upon. In his prayer he is reminding himself not only to speak the right words, but meditate upon the truth in your heart. What you meditate upon you become.

Psalms 8 declares the glory and majesty of the Lord Jehovah who is our Lord. We were created to give him glory and praise, even as children and our strength comes not in fighting or complaining about opposition, but our strength is in the Lord always giving him glory and praise in the midst of all things, even our enemies. The Hebrew word for enemies is Tsarar which means to bind, be narrow, be in distress, make narrow, cause distress, besiege, be straitened, be bound, to make narrow for, cause distress to, press hard upon, to show hostility toward, treat with enmity, vex, harass. It is really a verb. To me this is stating when we are in situations where we are in distress, feel pressed hard upon, vexed or harrassed, that is when we praise the Lord because that is the strength that will get rid of this distress or pressure. The Psalmist did that which many of us has done, look at the expanse of the universe and realize how small we are in the midst of all creation. Yet in the midst of all that is created, God is mindful of man, me. Jesus Christ was made a little lower than a heavenly being. He came to earth born of a woman so He could pay the price. Through his cross and resurrection, he restored man back into his rightful position. When we accept him into our lives and acknowledge him as Lord, we are the body of Christ. We too are created a little lower than heavenly beings crowned with glory and honor, for as he was so are we in this world. God is mindful of man because we were the only ones created in his image and likeness. Jesus restored us to this image and once again we are one with God. When we were created the image of God we were given all authority. Now that Jesus has restored us into that which we were created for, we have the ability to subdue the earth. But the first and last and everything in between, we praise and glorify our God who is the Lord over our life.