Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  Psalm 143 “Don’t put your servant on trial, for no one is innocent before you.” Psalm 143:2 NLT MAIN POINT: You need to learn to discern what is sin and what is God’s will. Have you ever been on trial? I was on trial many years ago for a traffic accident where I was found to be the cause or guilty one. I had to pay the other insurance companies for years after that. I sat in a trial too a few times, as an observer, as a witness, as a supporter of the people involved in the trial. David is right, there are no innocent parties. Most situations in life are complex and even what appears to be the simplest of scenarios can often be traced back to other causes, perpetrators who had been themselves victims and so on. I want to make it clear I am thinking these things through. I have invited you as the reader to join me in the process. Depending on when you read this and in what form, you may see photos of the process of writing/copying or transcriptions of audio reflections I make while...

  Psalm 69 MAIN POINT: A sinless Jesus suffered all the pain of sin for me (and you) while He lived and hung on the cross. Need I remind you that I am looking for Jesus Christ in the Psalms? So it is obvious that through the ages Psalm 69 is considered a Messianic Psalm because of Matthew’s inclusion of the detail of Jesus twice being offered sour wine. “But instead, they give me poison for food; they offer me sour wine for my thirst.”  Psalm 69:21 NLT  “ The soldiers gave him wine mixed with bitter gall, but when he had tasted it, he refused to drink it”. ... “One of them ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, holding it up to him on a reed stick so he could drink.”  Matthew 27:34, 48 NLT Many who comment on this Psalm say that only some parts of it apply to Christ because when David talks about being a sinner, that obviously can not apply to Jesus who was perfect and did not sin. I want to consider what Jesus did on the cross.  Jesus suffered humiliation. Dav...