Today's text from the ESV Study Bible: Psalms 6, 8-10, 14,16,19,21.
If our faith in God is completely in the creator of the universe, as he has disclosed himself to us in the Bible, and we understand fully what this means, then would not we stand mute before the glory of God?
I mean, what could we possibly say?
Here is Dr. John Piper's attempt:
"The psalm begins and ends with its main point. Verse 1: “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” Verse 9: “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.” The two words for lord (O LORD, our Lord) are not the same in Hebrew. The first one, with all caps, is a translation of the name Yahweh—not a generic name for God, but the personal name of Israel’s God built on the statement in Exodus 3:14, “I am who I am.” God named himself Yahweh, that is, the absolutely existing one—the one who simply is, who did not come into being, and does not go out of being, and never changes in his being, because he is absolute being. He depends on nothing for his being and all else depends on him.
This name is majestic in all the earth. “O Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name—Yahweh, the absolutely existing one—in all the earth.” There is no place in all the earth where God is not Yahweh—where he is not the absolute one. Everywhere everything depends absolutely on him. He has no viable competitors anywhere. He is above all things everywhere. He sustains all things everywhere. He is the ground and goal of all things everywhere. He is greater and wiser and more beautiful and wonderful than everything everywhere. “O Yahweh, our Lord (our Master, our King, our Ruler), how majestic is your name in all the earth.” That’s the main point of the psalm. And the aim is that we stand in awe of him and worship."
Everywhere everything depends absolutely on him.
If that is true, and if you believe that to be true, then it seems to me that all we can do is silence our lips and ask the Holy Spirit to intercede with words, or ways of communication that we don't yet understand.
Dig deep dear reader! There is nothing available to us but awe if we understand our majestic Yahweh.
If that doesn't make sense to you, keep digging.
No wonder David said, "what is man that you are mindful of him?"
