Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  Psalm 62 “He (God) alone” v.2 David attracted attention and was surrounded by people. Ever since the Goliath incident and maybe ever since the day Samuel anoints David. David had seven passed-over brothers and those brothers had friends. So Samuel the prophet comes along and endangers the whole family with this anointing incident. Everybody is immediately guilty of treason. It’s hard to believe that it was kept a secret by all the sons of Jesse, the servants of David’s household and David’s parents. Maybe people didn’t put much stock in the visit after nothing seems to come of it until the day David killed Goliath. Add to those things David's other roles, such as the task of helping Saul find rest by David visiting and playing his harp. So David might be the next king, and surely people will want a piece of the David train action. After Goliath, David has a few different roles in the royal household of Saul. Upstart military leader, closest friend of the royal prince Jonathan, a...

The righteous person faces many troubles, but the LORD comes to the rescue each time. Psalm 34:19 NLT Psalm 34 v.20 “He keeps all his bones, Not one of them is broken.” cf. “These things happened in fulfilment of the Scriptures that say, “Not one of his bones will be broken,” John 19:36 Jesus had a best friend and his name was John. Jesus showed John things no one else got to see. I think John’s love language must have been quality time because if Jesus went anywhere special or picked someone to go to something with him, John was usually there. “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (John 21:20, Matthew 17:1, Mark 3:17, John 13:23, John 19:25-27, John 20:8) It’s John that tells us that Psalm 34:20 should be read to be about Jesus. I don’t know if we would have caught it or understood the importance had John not mentioned it. And I’m not sure I understand fully why it is important. But I do see a possible conundrum in common logic that David corrects in Psalm 34: 19-20 v.19 “Many are the affl...