Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  Psalm 102 Main Point: Jesus is the suffering servant of God who knows our weaknesses and yet He is also the saviour King who rescues all who call out to Him. This morning I don’t have the answers and I wonder if I even have the right questions. I am looking for Jesus in the Psalms and I see two Jesuses in this Psalm. Or do I? You can be the judge. Firstly I see Jesus the suffering man in the garden of Gethsemane who was required to die so young. And I wonder if I hear His voice through the whole of the first section of this Psalm. “He broke my strength in midlife, cutting short my days.” Psalm 102:23 Secondly, could it also be Jesus/God/or the Father being described in verse 12 and the other divine sections of Psalm 102? Jesus said He was one overwhelmed with trouble or sorrow, and no one in all human history poured himself out before the Lord more intensely than Jesus did. “He told them, "My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me....

  Psalm 54 The background to this Psalm is found in 1 Samuel 23:19-20 .  David’s life is filled with problems from his childhood through to his death. Can you recount the challenges that David faced in his life? David saw great triumphs, but these did not lead to the peace, prosperity, relative ease and rest that you might imagine. David had those moments in his life, but more often than not, we read of enemies attacking him: from wild animals, to brothers, to mighty warriors, to the king, to foreign armies, to his own sons and on it goes. According to the notes above Psalm 54 and 63, we read David’s prayer to God. And according to the more historical book of first and second Samuel, we read of the events leading up to the prayers and the events following the prayers. David was delivered in a fashion. He still was a fugitive, he still was not yet recognised as King, Saul and the Ziphites were still living and not conquered or destroyed. David escaped, and you could see that i...