Over the past few weeks I’ve been reading No Compromise, by Melody Green. It’s the biography of her husband Keith, and as I read I’ve listened to Keith’s music a lot. This week, a track from Keith Green’s album Songs For The Shepherd (1982) jumped out at me, How Majestic Is Thy Name.

I love the Psalms, I read Psalm 119 every night and read many others over and over again. Psalm 8 is one of those, and as I listened to this song I wondered if this is how David sang Psalm 8 all those years ago.

Oh Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is thy name in all the Earth,
Oh Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is thy name in all the Earth.

Thou has displayed thy splendor above the heavens,
Thou has established strength from mouths of infants,
To show all thine enemies.

For when I consider the heavens the work of thy fingers,
The moon and the stars which thou hast appointed,
For what is man, that thou dost take thought of him,
And the son of man, that thou doest care for him.

Hallelujah Lord our Lord,
Oh how I love you.
Hallelujah Lord our Lord,
Oh how I love you.

You’ve made man a little lower than all of the angels,
And crowned him with glory to rule over your creation,
And under his feet, you’ve put the beasts of the field,
The birds of the heavens and what passes through the seas,
The birds of the heavens and what passes through the sea.

The majesty and wonder of God is something that I’ll never grasp, but it isn’t something I can’t glimpse. Either through reading about it, or by looking at the night sky.

How Majestic Is Thy Name – Keith Green