Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  Psalm 115  “But Jesus told him, "Follow me now. Let the spiritually dead bury their own dead." Matthew 8:22 NLT “And those who make idols are just like them , as are all who trust in them.” Psalms 115:8 NLT We trust a Living God and so we are made alive. But idolatry is mocked by the author of this Psalm as not only gold or silver items which are not alive but made by people who are also not alive. And you may ask, how can that be? How can the person taking up the activity of forming little statues of made up gods not be alive? And it is because they are not spiritually alive. Their idolatry is proof that they cannot see how silly the whole activity is. There are many places in the Bible where those who make idols are mocked for the absurdness of the activity that identifies their spiritual deadness. And so the ‘dead now’ only have the ‘dead later’ to look forward to beyond the grave. They will not be able to praise God. But we are made alive. And so we see the agreement b...