Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  Psalm 100 - Prank phone calls used to be a thing. Radio stations called random people. Youth called random people with rude or odd questions. And in my twenties I called people in the church and just read Psalm 100 and hung up afterwards. I know it is strange. You’ll have to trust me, it was a different time. I used Psalm 100 for a few reasons: it was short, it had a certain “ring” to it, in that the reference and the words of the Psalm seemed “punchy”. It was like a random drive by declaration of blessing and kindness. Oh well, those days are long gone but Psalm 100 has persisted. Since Jesus calls Himself the good shepherd in John 10 readers of the Bible have had no problem seeing Jesus in Psalm 23. Here He is again. And Psalm 100 tells us more about this Shepherd King. Make some noise because Jesus is the shepherd King of all mankind (all creation) v1 All the earth, everyone is called upon to celebrate the Lord, who we come to find out is a Shepherd King.  Shouts, gl...

  Psalm 48 For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory. 2 Corinthians 1:20 ESV If you want to skip right to the thoughts from Psalm 48 click here or scroll down to the end of this section. I have some very simple exegetical guidelines that I use when reading the Bible and trying to make sense of it. (Don’t worry I have not forgotten Psalm 48 but I feel like I need to set some guidelines before I offer my interpretation of this Psalm.) It’s all about Jesus. ( And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. Luke 24:27) Whenever I read the Bible I know it is about Jesus and so I look for Jesus. Of course there will be contextual, historical and thematic truths that will need to be understood as well but they are tools to make my way to Jesus. It’s not all about me. It is easy to try to apply everything to myself and try to make my...