Day 2 - Psalm 2
Like many psalms this one begins with a question. “Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain?” The response is immediate, “the Lord laughs” (v4) at the outrageous suggestion that they would try to plot against Him and his anointed King! He simply responds with his final word. “I have installed my king!” (v6) – God has put the King there!
You will see that many psalms are prophecies, pointing towards Jesus. This is seen through two meanings where the writer of the psalm is speaking about himself, and also a deeper meaning, that points to Jesus. If you see the psalms in the light of Jesus; they reveal the entire gospel message, although written hundreds of years before Jesus was born!
An example of this is seen throughout Psalm 2. King David was anointed by God as king, (v2) but there is a great King to come in the line of David, Jesus the King of kings, Christ the Anointed One. Jesus too was conspired and plotted against to his death.
He goes on to say this Anointed One is the Lord’s Son (v7). This verse is quoted by the apostle Paul in Acts 13:33 as part of his proof that Jesus was God’s Son and therefore had power to rise from death.
As we read on in this light, Jesus is the One who through His resurrection inherits the nations, and rules over them as King. (v8) Verses 10-12 points us to serving Him rather than rejecting Him; we are to serve Him in submission and “kiss His Son”.
We are the ones that in our rebellion, conspired and plotted against God, and therefore faced God’s wrath and righteous judgement, but there is an Anointed One, God’s own Son. If we “kiss His son” by accepting his gift of salvation, He will save us from God’s wrath and our own ways, we will find blessing and a refuge in Him!
Think it over / Meditate on:
How do we “kiss the Son” and take refuge in Him in our lives? V12
What comfort can you have knowing that God has appointed Jesus as King over all and that nothing will work against Him?
Ben
Ben Parsons, Lead Pastor - Sutton Central location