The first section of Psalms has been called the Genesis Psalms.

They help us to realize that every good thing begins with God.

The Psalms provide a roadmap for the journey ahead.

In them, we learn to bring every emotion and experience

of life into the presence of God. Join Scott Pauley now as we study God's word together.

O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, who has set thy glory above the heavens.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou might

instill the enemy and the avenger? When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained,

what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him,

for thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and has crowned him with glory and honor.

Thou madeest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands, thou

hast 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 whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas,

O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. Psalm 8. That's what I've just read to you, nine little

verses, and they are powerful. What profound verses they are. Psalm 8 has been called a nature psalm,

because it deals so much with God's created world, the world that God spoke into existence,

and then the man that God fashioned with his own hands. It is that. It is a Psalm about the Creator.

But one other interesting thing is Psalm 8 is also commonly referred to as a Messianic Psalm.

I love this connection between the Creator and the Savior. is also commonly referred to as a messianic psalm.

I love this connection between the Creator and the Savior.

The God who made man is the God who became a man without ceasing to be God so he could restore us to himself.

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