Psalm 8

WEEK 9                                                     Psalms 8  

WEDNESDAY  Reflections

Animals in nature, eat animals.

Psalm 8

This Psalm reminds us that man isn’t an equal among animals. We aren’t the “human animal” which some like to refer to humanity, we are more. We are over other animals. This means we can choose what to do with them but also that we need to care for them.  

 

I am amazed that people claim that we should treat animals humanely, but then want to claim that we are just animals. It is a contradictory thought. If I suggested, we treat animals like other animals treat animals many people would be upset. Yet you can not have it both ways, we are either greater than the animals (a place given us by God), or we are just an animal. If we are only animals then nothing matters, everything is going to die eventually, so do whatever you want.

 

The scriptures teach us that we are greater than the animals. With that elevated status, we are responsible for how we treat the world we have been given.

 

Side note: Some may feel the right thing to do is to go vegetarian and they are free to do.  However, Jesus ate meat and nowhere in scripture does it indicate that we today are to become vegetarians.

LISTEN HERE

Psa 8:1-9

(1)  To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

(2)  Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings, hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

(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?

(5)  For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor.

(6)  Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

(7)  All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

(8)  The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

(9)  O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

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