Monday, December 8, 2008
Psalm 8:1 Yehovah our Lord, How majestic Your name in all the earth! Who set Your splendor upon the heavens!
THE MAJESTIC NAME
How wonderful the name of God is! How high, how lofty, how majestic it stands above all the earth. There is no other name that compares to it. Yehovah, Jehovah, the merciful God of promises fulfilled is His name. Come Advent and on Christmas Eve we especially retrace the countless promises of Yehovah and see in Jesus the fulfillment of them all. Not one promise made is left undone, unkept.
Who in all the earth, what name among all the names heralded as great and mighty can make such a claim? Who can demonstrate such faithfulness? How majestic, how splendid is that name to us.
In reflecting upon one's life, one's past and present, and looking to the days that yet may be, they are days filled with sin. Days that end with but one confession -- I am chief of sinners. Days wherein I know that even the very best of my righteousness is still a greasy filthy rag that I would dare not present to God as justification.
Yet because of Yehovah, the crimson sins, the scarlet sins, are white as wool, as pure as new fallen snow. Because His mercy fails not, His promises are "yea and amen" and always shall be.
There is the majesty of the name of Yehovah. There is the splendor that He has set upon the heavens above, Jesus who was slain, and is alive forever more, seated at the right hand of the Father. Jesus glory, His work, His righteousness, His death, His rising, His ascending, His living forever is given to me by faith. This I possess as mine. I am forgiven. How great, glorious, majestic and splendid is the name Yehovah, our Lord!
