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...

  Psalm 50 The real God, the only real God doesn’t need anything from us. He does not need us to feed Him. He does not need us to sacrifice to Him. It is not because He lacks something that we offer a sacrifice. God owns everything. Everything is already all His possession. And as the owner of all things, He is calling all things to account. He is evaluating all His possessions. All people have been summoned and all things will be judged v.4. And while God is assessing all that is His, He will bring out His prized possession, and before all creation He calls all creation, everything in heaven and earth to be present as witnesses for His judgement of His people.  Judgement is not always a negative word. If a young person who has raised a calf brings it to the county fair, they are hoping that the judge will notice all the fine qualities they have nurtured and developed in the fine animal they bring to be evaluated by the judge. A young person who knows their stuff will notice i...