Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  Psalm 114 Main Point: Jesus is the earth-shaking king who produces life-giving water from the rock that is Himself. When I was in my early twenties I visited my dad’s hometown, a place he had been working a bit again as a builder. I went with Lyssa, my wife of just a year or so and stopped in a restaurant connected to a large retail place built by the company my dad worked for. When I walked into the restaurant the person at the counter very warmly greeted me with, “Hi Don!” I’m not Don, I’m William (actually Bill or even Billy to the folks in Howard City and Lakeview but that’s probably another story about names; rest assured my name is William even if I have been called many other names through the years. But I digress.). Don, my father is 20 years older than me. But apparently he looks young and I looked older. It was not an isolated incident. I unsurprisingly look like my father. I still do. Monday I asked some young theological students about the name of God used in Psalm 11...

  Psalm 57 I have only one rock, only one unchangeable, sure, safe place, and that is my God. I see the wonderful works of my God everywhere I look. And I see His loving hand of mercy and care over my path when I look back and in faith as I look ahead. I know that there is nothing I will encounter that God has not intended for my good. I have seen the complaints and the requests for vindication and retribution from David and the Psalmist in these first 57 chapters. But what I also see, soaring above the cries for help and frustrations, is our God . And daily I hardly have to scratch the surface to see a link between the Psalm and Jesus. Today I see Jesus being hounded just like David. As King of all the universe, Jesus and His Father in Heaven with the Spirit had all the power and authority to do things any way or anywhere They wished to have done things; They could have changed things so the enemies never surrounded or threatened David or Jesus. God is unlimited in His power and l...