The “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your
name” is mindful of mortals. Within the human community the mighty generally
ignore the lowly. There are exceptions, of course, but more often than not
human beings are only mindful of themselves. Not so with the majestic name that
is above all names. God in Jesus enters the human story as a baby born to an
unwed mother in a country occupied by a foreign power. He is the opposite of
what we would expect. “He
had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that
we should desire him. He was despised and rejected, a man of suffering and
familiar with pain, like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised
and we held him in low esteem.” (Isaiah 53:2-3) David imagines God’s mindfulness as crowning
mortals with glory and honor and giving them dominion over every living thing.
Mortals crowned the majestic name with thorns and heaped scorn and abuse on
that sacred head. But the glory of God was the cross (John 12:28) where God elevated
mortals by being brought low. “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in
all the earth…”
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