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Seeing Jesus in Psalm 102

  Psalm 102 Main Point: Jesus is the suffering servant of God who knows our weaknesses and yet He is also the saviour King who rescues all who call out to Him. This morning I don’t have the answers and I wonder if I even have the right questions. I am looking for Jesus in the Psalms and I see two Jesuses in this Psalm. Or do I? You can be the judge. Firstly I see Jesus the suffering man in the garden of Gethsemane who was required to die so young. And I wonder if I hear His voice through the whole of the first section of this Psalm. “He broke my strength in midlife, cutting short my days.” Psalm 102:23 Secondly, could it also be Jesus/God/or the Father being described in verse 12 and the other divine sections of Psalm 102? Jesus said He was one overwhelmed with trouble or sorrow, and no one in all human history poured himself out before the Lord more intensely than Jesus did. “He told them, "My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me....