Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

Psalm 118 Sometimes a big event overshadows something else very significant happening around the same time. Since I set out on this journey to handwrite a copy of every Psalm and then write a “Bible lesson” for each one everyday for 150 days, I always get asked the same question. “What are you going to do when you get to Psalm 119?” My friends were so concerned that they organised a crew of helpers to join in the task of rewriting the Psalm. More on that after this Psalm. I realised after 70 some days that I needed to have a rest day in the week and that writing 7 days a week wasn’t the best idea. But I was still determined to finish the project by the end of the year, so I made the plan with Lyssa to rest on Sunday and write two Psalms on Monday (which is my weekend day since the store is open on Saturday and closed on Sunday and Monday). But after reordering the Psalms I noticed that would put Psalm 119 on a Monday and actually couple it with Psalm 118. With all the concentration on ...

  Psalm 86 Each morning I sit here and I have a pretty good idea what I will write about Jesus. Not yet today. It is not that I have not seen things that make me think of Jesus. But I’m distracted and the clarity of the Psalm has not yet struck me. Maybe you can help? I’m of two minds.  Firstly I see Jesus, in David. That is the man seeking God. And we see the conversation between Jesus and His Father several times in the gospels as well as teaching about the relationship between Father and Son in the rest of the New Testament. Yesterday I was looking at and thinking about Jesus' prayer in John 17 and I could probably see links between that prayer and this prayer of David in Psalm 86.  Then there is the way of seeing the Psalm as Jesus being the God David seeks. Jesus reveals to us that He has all the character qualities that David in this Psalm attributes to God. And then as I was rereading the Psalm maybe for the 5th or more time, verse 15 hit me and I started to look a...