What is man? By Don Fortner Hebrews
2 verse 6 What is man, that you are mindful of him? What is man? In the light of God's greatness
and glory, it is an astonishing thing that God should be mindful
of man, especially when we see the answer given in the Bible
to the question, What is man? Man is set before us in the Word
of God as the particular, distinct object of God's mercy, love,
and grace. But what is man? Anyone who knows
and acknowledges the greatness of God will also freely acknowledge
the utter insignificance of man. As soon as David looked up to
heaven and spoke to God of his greatness, his heart was humbled,
his pride was withered, and he cried, What is man, that you
are mindful of him? It is impossible for anyone to
have both great views of God and great views of man. Those
who imagine that man is great think that God is insignificant.
Those who know that God is great know that man is insignificant.
What is man, that you are mindful of him? Here is. Greatness and littleness. Grandeur
and nothingness. Excellence and corruption. Majesty
and baseness. God and man. What is man? The word of God tells us plainly.
Genesis 3 verse 19, you are dust and you will return to dust.
Isaiah 40 verse 6 All men are like grass, and all their glory
is like the flowers of the field. Psalm 39 verse 5 Truly, every
man at his best state is altogether vanity. What is man? Do not ask. Philosophers what
they imagine. Educators what they teach. Scientists
what they see under microscopes. Psychologists what they see in
their clinics or Sociologists what they learn from observation.
Ask God who made us. He declares in His Word that
man is fallen, depraved, sinful, cursed, condemned, helpless,
dying flesh. Men are grasshoppers before Him. Men are the dust of the earth,
nothing more. Man is a lump of clay, a puff
of smoke, a mist of vapor, the small dust of the balance, a
drop in a bucket. All the nations of all men and
all the world are less than nothing before the great and infinite
God. Man is insignificant. God, teach us to know our insignificance,
that we may look to Christ for everything.