Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  Psalm 92 Main Point: When you look for Jesus/God you will find Him, and He will thrill your heart. Have you ever lost something and you tried to explain what it was to someone so they could help you search for it? Like a child? But you don’t remember what they were wearing and in your panic you can’t seem to adequately produce a distinguishing description of your lost child that will set them apart from the other 300 small people running around in the playground. Psalm 92 does not suffer from this problem. But maybe we are overwhelmed with details, amazing and distinguishing details, but nonetheless there is a description of God here and we want to know, is this telling us about Jesus?   “If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!" John 14:7 NLT Jesus turns this question around and says if you look at Jesus, you will have seen the Father. So isn’t any description of God at least in part Christological? Of...

  Psalm 91 How can it be true? Under what circumstances are these words a reflection of the reality of God’s followers? I am not comforted but these words as many people find comfort because they appear to be a false promise. I thought for a moment that it might be speaking about Jesus. Maybe He is the one that can claim this promise. Apparently, I am not alone in this thought.  “and said, “If you are the Son of God, jump off! For the Scriptures say, ‘He will order his angels to protect you. And they will hold you up with their hands so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.’”” Matthew 4:6 NLT Satan thought too that this promise was a step too far and used it to try and tempt Jesus to sin and Jesus responded with another scripture from Deuteronomy.  “Jesus responded, “The Scriptures also say, ‘You must not test the LORD your God.’”” Matthew 4:7 So if you look at the context of the passage that Jesus is quoting to Satan, it tells us that this is actually a conditional p...

  Psalm 90   Reflections on Psalm 90 written by Lyssa Bode The family home is more than a building with walls and a roof. It’s a picture of roots, stability, identity and relationship. Do you remember your grandparents living in the same house your entire life? Did your entire extended family gather there every summer for a barbecue, or at Christmas for games and a glorious Christmas dinner? Generations of memories have been made there, and no one would dare sell it to someone outside the family. It is known by all as the ______ family home. But Moses, the writer of this Psalm, was a nomad. He was born in Egypt , a slave condemned by the Pharaoh, along with perhaps thousands of other Hebrew boys. Moses was hidden by his parents, and through a series of events, grew up in that same Pharaoh’s house. Forced to flee as a young man, he landed in Midian, where God eventually came to him in the famous burning bush incident. You know the history of how God raised up Moses to lead the ...

  Psalm 89 How can this be anyone but Jesus? Really folks, did you read it? There is a dilemma in Psalm 89. On one hand it speaks often of forever and in such sure and stable terms you think this is unshakeable and unbreakable and then wallop it is all a mess and 180° turned around. For our puny minds is this a problem but for an eternal God with an eternal Son who becomes a God/Man, it is no problem at all. And here we can see the power of the hypostatic union at work. All at once Jesus is perfect and eternal and also bearer of sin and shame. Isn’t it great? I think people probably gave up pondering how this could all work out and choose to ignore the inconsistencies.  I want to take you into a realm you may not have spent much time thinking about. Light. What is light? Is it something tangible or is it  energy in movement and intangible? Scientists discuss it by asking is it a particle or a wave? Well it is both.  Around the year 1900 it was understood that light ...