Jesus In The Psalms

Posted by Lorren on July 24, 2008

I’ve been reading Psalm 102, and I thought that I might comment on it.

I’ve you’ve read a little of my blog, especially those from a couple of months ago, you might remember that our house caught on fire, and we ended up having to move. I don’t think of it all the time any more… but sometimes it bothers me at night when I’m trying to go to sleep, or I’m reminded of some toy or other small thing that we lost in the fire (we were able to save many of our larger things). I saw some pictures of our house, and I got a little sad about it. I guess I can relate to verse 3, “for my days are consumed like smoke”… LOL. Not all the time, but sometimes.

BUT… there’s a but there. This Psalm isn’t just one big pity party… God is always going to be here (v. 12)!

Then I came across this:

This will be written for the generation to come,
That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.
For he looked down from the height of His sanctuary;
From heaven the Lord viewed the earth,
To hear the groaning of the prisoner,
To release those appointed to death.

~ Psalm 102:18-20

Those verses just jumped out at me. Aren’t we the generation to come? Well, that and everybody that’s been alive for nearly the last 2000 years. God was up in Heaven, looking down, and he saw all the people. We are prisoners in a way… or we were… we were prisoners to sin. Our sins earned us a death sentence. Jesus came to release us, when he died on the cross on Calvary, so that everybody that repents and trusts in him can be saved.

It’s pretty amazing that God would have compassion on me like that.