We rule the earth
 Psalms 8
1 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.

2 From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:

7 all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field,

8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

The Psalms describe Gods order in creation. God is the supreme Judge and Governor over the earth. Before the fall of man into sin God gave man the responsibility to rule over His creation.  As God created all things from nothing by the word of His mouth so man with the glory of a creating authority in using Gods word to bring unity and symmetry to Gods order. When the Psalmist is talking about from the" lips of children and infants" he is using the word "praise" as a metaphor for mans ability to speak Gods commands, decrees, statutes, and covenants as the source of mans artistic ability to rule over the earth and act as an individual as distinct from all other men. 

But as we see the gospel always has this legal side to it. This phrase "foe and avenger" is speaking of the nations who war against Gods order that He establishes in His counsel from all eternity and through His elect. So God does not only design the world but He governs all peoples and nations..He governs all of His creation. But we must also understand that God has placed this governing ability within each man. 

This is what is so hard for us to change . We have been taught that the world is run through social order.' All for one and one for all". In this day we take pleasure in being constrained by the force of other men. We really do not experience biblical freedom. But the Psalms teach that each man is his own ruler. This is why after God had made man, we could picture God as standing before His throne and raising the sword up to each shoulder as He ceremoniously honored man as a refection of His majesty by gifting him with these creative abilities. In the Psalms God is fully able to meet the desires of each man as distinct from all other men. And in honoring mans sovereignty which is in conflict with other men, God is fully able to reconcile these differences and establish the highest pleasure in uniting all these individual desires. We do not believe that by two lines we come to one purpose but we believe that God in His original work in saving man has gifted him with Gods desires that are united with Gods purposes so that the more personal the desires are the closer we grow to experience our full salvation. In other words there is no further work to be done in us in order for us to align our desires with Gods desires. I assure you that I am putting this in accurate context.