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!"
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 course the Father did not die on the cross, but it was His will that sent Jesus to do that wonderful, terrible act for us.
When I was reading Psalm 92 I noticed my mind racing to a scene where Jesus did this or that or said this or that, just like I was seeing in the Psalm.
Like in John 6:11, when Jesus gave thanks for the fish and bread, or in the teaching of Paul where thanks to the Father always seems to flow from our relationship with Jesus the Son (Ephesians 5:20, Colossians 1:3, 3:17).
And the practice of prayer early in the morning it seems Jesus might have had surely is a reflection of the proclamation of unfailing love in the morning.
“Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place to pray.”
And in John 20:19 it was in the evening Jesus shows up after the resurrection to show the faithfulness of God’s promise. As I make my way through Psalm 92 and think about Jesus, it isn’t the testimony of scripture that comes to mind as I read verses 4 and 5. It is my own testimony, my own relationship with Jesus that reflects these words. It is like any one who has a shared experience that hears someone else describe something and then says, Exactly! That's just what I too have thought, said, felt….etc.
Thoro Harris has been to a few places I’ve been. And although he died 10 years before I was born he seems to have taken the words right out of my mouth when describing Jesus. Remember that lost child I mentioned at the beginning, It's like that! All of a sudden I know Thoro Harris has seen Jesus and I have found Jesus in the Psalm today and in the song I learned as a child. It rings true.
All that thrills my soul is Jesus,
and the fairest of ten thousand
Duh!? It may sound condescending and it may sound prideful and rude, but the truth is the truth. And if you can’t see it you must be blind.
That’s another way to express Psalm 92:6.
If you have been reading along as I search for Jesus in the Psalms, maybe you have thought that some of my observations are too much of a stretch, and I can understand that. I think it comes a bit from the fact I see Jesus in everything. And say we go back to the lost child. And he is not found. Then won’t the parent see the lost child in every child they see from now on? Could it be? Did we finally find him? Buy a new car and try to find it in a huge parking lot and immediately you’ll think half the people there have also just bought that car. Not because there really are so many but because you can’t help but see it in amongst all the rest. What before you didn’t even notice becomes a detail that really springs to mind.
And then the Psalmist really brings our attention to a work that only Jesus can do. Planting or transplanting us in God’s house.
“For they are transplanted to the LORD’s own house. They flourish in the courts of our God.”
Psalms 92:13 NLT
Jesus is the gate, the way, and the place preparer so no one is flourishing in God’s house without Jesus’ invitation.
And the declaration of fruit bearing in verse 14 of Psalm 92 is a clear nod to Jesus who tells us there is no fruit bearing apart from him.
And Paul lets us know that the rock often mentioned in the Psalms and usually pointing to the rock in Exodus that produced water is Jesus.
“and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ.”
Conclusion:
Is Psalm 92 (or any of the other Psalms) overtly a messianic Psalm? I unashamedly admit I see Jesus wherever I look, so for me, I read the Psalm and it talks of God and it sounds like Jesus. And all that thrills my soul is Jesus, so I’m okay with that. I won't feel bad if you become like me in longing for the moment when I see my Saviour face to face. I’m not a lost boy anymore but I am travelling on my way home to be transplanted into the house of God and to flourish under the care of my saviour, Jesus.
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