Monday | 16 February 2026
In Psalm 8, King David asked the question, ‘What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honour.’ Psa 8:4-5. Making this statement, David marvelled at the wonder of our predestination. According to God’s covenant purpose, which was settled before the creation of the heavens and the earth, we were to be brought to glory as men who were made in the image and according to the likeness of God. Heb 2:10. Gen 1:26.
It was from this predestination that mankind fell, when Adam and his wife ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in an endeavour to become the source of their own life and destiny. Through one man’s disobedience, sin and death entered the world. Death spread to all men, because all sinned. Rom 5:12.
Mercifully, the word of our predestination is ministered to us as the gospel of God. This is the word of our salvation. Even though we are lost to God and under condemnation as we eat the fruit of our own fallen ways, the word finds us. It comes to us as a word of deliverance. Those who receive, believe and accept the word, are born again to a living hope. This is the hope of our predestination, which has been fulfilled for us by Christ through His offering and suffering journey.
As miraculous and wonderful as new birth is, the parable of the sower and the seed teaches us that it is insufficient for salvation. Having been born of God, we must be delivered from the stones of law and the thorny desires that compete with the divine life of which we have been born.
Further Study:
Hebrews 2
References:
Psa 8:4-5
What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honour.
Heb 2:10
For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Gen 1:26
Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’
Rom 5:12
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned.