Psalm 8
The cry of every baby is proof that God is the Creator. Another soul made in the image of God1 O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!Yes, how majestic is God’s name. It is different and He is different. Different from anything and everything else for He made it all. In another place we are told that God has exalted, that is made His Name higher than or above every other name. A name being a description of what it applies to.
2 From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
4 What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him?
5 Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty!
6 You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth!
Even though the new learning may tell us that there is no real meaning to words there is meaning, else they would not be talking. Words have meaning, names have meaning and the things that God has done have meaning. Yes, even meaning to us today for He is the same as He always has been. He is God
The many different characteristics, qualities, abilities and creations of God mentioned in this psalm are only a few. No one or even all of them tells all there is to know about God, but they do speak of things that God has done. And without a doubt Who God is, that is His Person, Himself, is far more than what He has done. For example we have learned that God loves the people whom He has created, not because of who they (we) are but because He Himself is love. He gives because He is a giver. He creates because He is the Creator, and so on. He does what He does because of Who He is, and we can observe the things He has done, but we are told that no man can see Him.
Jesus said that God is a Spirit, that is He exists independently of anyone or anything material, material meaning something tangible or that can be seen or felt. He is not part of His creation or any other creation, He is the One who exists because of Who He is.
When God called Moses to go back to Egypt and tell the Israelites that God was going to set them free and to tell Pharaoh to let them go free Moses knew that he did not have that clout with either Pharaoh or his own relatives. His name was mud, so please God, tell me your Name so I can use that as authority. Your Name will describe who you are so they will obey us. Moses did not know then that God cannot be described, but God soon told him that a name could never describe the indescribable God. No Moses, get the idea that I am God for no other reason than because I am God. And Moses learned for we see when we read the very first words in the Bible that he says in the beginning God.
Yes, God is different