Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  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...

Psalm 46 Have you read Psalm 46? My small “Bible lesson” is meaningless compared to the Word of God. After I copied the Psalm by hand I felt like something was missing, so I went and read the Psalm aloud and recorded it to share. But still something was missing. So I went back to look at my handwritten copy and compared it to the Bible text I was copying and sure enough I had left a word out. Did you catch it? “Interlude” at the end of verse 3. Missing the interlude has been a problem of mine for most of my life, since I can remember and I remember at one point in my life as a leader, around the year 2000, I purposed in my heart to change the habit of missing the interlude. This Psalm has three. Three moments to stop, pause, rest, consider and reflect on all that God has said and done. You too will miss the interludes if you don’t take time to read the Psalm and then pause before reading my words or any other devotional material. I am a full time volunteer in a Christian bookstore. We ...