Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  Psalm 150 1 Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary;     praise him in his mighty heaven! 2 Praise him for his mighty works;     praise his unequaled greatness! 3 Praise him with a blast of the ram’s horn;     praise him with the lyre and harp! 4 Praise him with the tambourine and dancing;     praise him with strings and flutes! 5 Praise him with a clash of cymbals;     praise him with loud clanging cymbals. 6 Let everything that breathes sing praises to the Lord! Praise the Lord! Psalm 150 3 And they were singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: “ Great and marvelous are your works ,     O Lord God, the Almighty. Just and true are your ways,     O King of the nations.[a] 4 Who will not fear you, Lord,     and glorify your name?     For you alone are holy. All nation...

  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....