Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  Psalm 40 7 Then I said, “Look, I have come. As is written about me in the Scriptures…. Most translators seem consistent in the rendering of this phrase as referring to the “ speaker” being a person who is written about in the scriptures. Commentators disagree, with a large number retranslating the passage and the others declaring that this is a messianic Psalm referring to Jesus. Seeing Jesus as the helper and saviour in verse 17 is easy and it would be no problem to take nearly all of this Psalm as David praying to God (Jesus?). But to what extent does this Psalm express the words, feelings and actions of Jesus? The writer of Hebrews takes verses 6 and 7 of Psalm 40 and attributes them to Jesus. 5 That is why, when Christ came into the world, he said to God, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings. But you have given me a body to offer. 6 You were not pleased with burnt offerings or other offerings for sin. 7 Then I said, ‘Look, I have come to do your will, O God— a...

O LORD, oppose those who oppose me. Fight those who fight against me. Psalm 35:1 NLT   Psalm 35 I find such a Psalm hard. I don’t feel like I have many enemies and I really want to love my enemies, bless them that curse me, do good to them that hate me, and pray for them which despitefully use me, and persecute me ( Matthew 5:44 KJV). I see this evidence of being a believer one of the greatest evidences to my own heart that Jesus is living in me. I know only He can love His enemies. It feels to me that David is often in the vengeance business and that he is quite sensitive and he doesn’t want people talking behind his back and making fun of him.  Main Point: We are welcome to cry for justice if we trust God to be the judge. David wanted the injustice against him to stop but he was compassionate and cried to God for justice.  When I read Psalm 35:12-15 I took notice of David’s genuine compassion. 12 They repay me evil for good,  To the bereavement of my soul. 13 But...