Psalms 113:1-9: in context

This psalm calls God's servants to praise his name from the rising of the sun to its setting, for the LORD is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens. And then it asks: who is like the LORD our God, who is seated on high, who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth? He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap to seat them with princes, and gives the childless woman a home as a joyful mother of children.

The heart of this psalm is the astonishing combination of height and stooping. God is exalted above all nations, his glory higher than the heavens themselves; and this same God, seated so high, stoops down to look, even to see the heavens and the earth far below him. His greatness does not make him remote; it is precisely the God enthroned above the heavens who bends down to notice. And notice what he stoops to do: not to admire the strong, but to raise the poor from the dust, lift the needy from the ash heap, seat the lowly with princes, give the barren woman a family. The higher his majesty, the lower he reaches; his exaltation expresses itself in bending down to the ones the world steps over. This is the character of the God the whole Bible reveals, supreme and yet tender, enthroned on high and yet stooping to the dust to lift up the lowest. It reaches its climax in the incarnation, where the God higher than the heavens stooped all the way down to be born in a manger and lift up the fallen. Who is like this God, so high and so low at once? To worship him is to marvel that the exalted One bends down, and to know that his stooping reaches all the way to me in the dust.

Do I know the God who is high above the heavens and yet stoops to the dust to lift the lowly, and does his willingness to bend down that far reach my hope, that he stoops even to me?