Daily Sacrifice, March 11 (81:4)
THIS psalm celebrates the omnipotence of God as manifested in creation (1-3), and then looks at man in his littleness and helplessness, standing in vivid contrast to the almighty power of Jehovah, and yet the object of His special favor. It is not of man as originally created that the question “What is man?” is asked. But of man, fallen, for it is “the son of man” that is in view, Adam was the son of God (Luke 3;38) by direct creation. The son of man takes in the entire fallen race. But what was lost by Adam’s sin is retrieved in Christ; therefore He is emphatically the Son of Man who will be set over all creation in God’s due time (Heb. 2:6-9). What the first man lost by sin the Son of Man has regained by redemption.
—Miss H. K. Burlingham.