Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  Psalm 98 Main Point: We can celebrate like we won the lotto when we know that Jesus remembers His promise and we have put our trust in that promise. I was at a concert of a Christian ska band back in the 90s, and as a youth pastor, I was invited to pray with the band before the concert. One of the band members shared the following verse with me: “For God is not unjust.  He will not forget how hard you have worked for him  and how you have shown your love to him  by caring for other believers, as you still do.” Hebrews 6:10 NLT I was deeply moved by this verse and by the young performer who ministered grace to me by sharing it. To this day I feel like it has the power of a magic spell. I know I used a bad metaphor but really it is hard to express the power of these words. You could call it a medicine. The truth is profound, deep, reassuring, comforting and moves me to tears even now as I type this. Although Psalm 98:3 has several different translations of what it is...

  Psalm 92 Main Point: When you look for Jesus/God you will find Him, and He will thrill your heart. Have you ever lost something and you tried to explain what it was to someone so they could help you search for it? Like a child? But you don’t remember what they were wearing and in your panic you can’t seem to adequately produce a distinguishing description of your lost child that will set them apart from the other 300 small people running around in the playground. Psalm 92 does not suffer from this problem. But maybe we are overwhelmed with details, amazing and distinguishing details, but nonetheless there is a description of God here and we want to know, is this telling us about Jesus?   “If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!" John 14:7 NLT Jesus turns this question around and says if you look at Jesus, you will have seen the Father. So isn’t any description of God at least in part Christological? Of...