What Is Man,...? Posted 02/10/2013
After reading through David's post today, I was reminded of the passage in the Psalm of David 8:4 “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visiteth him?” In light of the study in this 8th Psalm, man seems so puny in the vastness of God's creation. Yet, still, as we're told in the 5th verse, He bothers to crown man with “glory and honor.” A creature, so unlikely and without hope to help himself, is redeemed with a ransom of grace in such fashion beyond man's imagination. Even the prophet Isaiah put it in this manner when he said: “Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?” I heard this put in a paraphrase version as quite simply, “Man is a nose with air within.” It's just that simple, especially if we leave out the life of God within the man. The Giver of the spirit in the man, and the breath that he breathes, are all gifts of the Most High God. We exist fo...
