WALKING BY FAITH - I KEEP CLIMBING
WALKING WITH JESUS, I KEEP CLIMBING
With the Lord Jesus
Christ in my life, I walk with Him, His Spirit lives in me, showing me each
moment, each step of my life how to walk with Him. His very words again
and again bring me back to the basics of TRUSTING Him in all things.
Walk with me, as I blog my way into another year. As a Pilgrim, I will
journey, into the mountains, up and over the heights, down into the valleys and
dark shadows, yet ever, always winding my way upward, still upward.
HE IS OUR
PASSOVER LAMB,
OUR SHEPHERD,
AND
OUR COMING KING
Psalms are the Songbook of the Jews and of Christian
Believers who have found that the Savior truly came from the Father to show us
He IS, and WAS, and EVER WILL BE. He said that He would not judge those
who disbelieve in Him, but that His Words would do that. My intent in
this Blog is to use the Psalms with light from the New Testament to show how
God is at work in my heart today, and can be in your life also.
For today's entry, I choose Psalm 22, 23 and 24 to
point out a truth about the King of Heaven.
In Psalms 22 we have a graphic description of
crucifixion before it ever was invented by the Romans. Who is it that
the Psalm is talking about? In Psalm 23, we have the Shepherd Psalm.
God as our Shepherd, guiding and leading the Sheep. How does this
fit into what Jesus said? and last but not least, Psalm 24, the King of
Glory is spoken of and declared. Who ? is this ? King of Glory?
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Psalm
138.2
Thy Word
is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."
Psalm
119.105
PSALM 22
1.My God, my God, why hast
Thou forsaken me? why art Thou so far from
helping me, and from the
words of my roaring? 2. O my God, I cry in the daytime,
but Thou hearest not; and in the
night season, and am not silent. 3.But Thou Holy One
who inhabitest the praises of
Israel. 4. Our fathers trusted in thee; they trusted and
thou didst deliver them. 5. They
cried unto thee, and were delivered; they trusted in
Thee and were not confounded. 6.
But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men,
and despised of the people.
7. All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot
out the lip, they shake the head,
saying, 8. He trusted on the LORD that He would deliver
Him, seeing He delighted in Him.
9. But thou art He that took me out of the womb:
thou didst make me hope when I
was upon my mother's breasts. 10. I was cast upon
Thee from the womb; thou art my
God from my mother's belly. 11. Be not far from me;
for trouble is near; for there is
none to help. 12. Many bulls have compassed me; strong
bulls of Bashan have beset me
round. 13. They gape upon me with their mouths, as a
ravening and a roaring lion. 14.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of
joint; my heart is like wax; it
is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15. My strength is
dried up like a potsherd; and my
tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and Thou hast brought
me into the dust of death.
16. For dogs have compassed me; the assembly of the wicked
have inclosed me; they
pierced my hands and my feet. 17.I may tell all my bones; they
look and stare upon me. 18.
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my
vesture (coat). 19. But be not
far from me, O LORD, O y strength, haste Thee to help me.
20. Deliver my soul from the
sword; my darling from the power of the dog. 21. Save me
from the lion's mouth; for thou
hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. 22. I will
declare Thy Name unto my
brethren; in the midst of the congregation will I praise Thee.
23. Ye that fear the LORD, praise
Him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify Him, and fear Him,
all ye the seed of Israel.
24. For He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the
afflicted; neither hath he hid
his face from him; but when he cried unto Him, he heard.
25. My praise shall be of Thee in
the great congregation; I will pay my vows before them
that fear Him. 26. The meek shall
eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek
Him; your heart shall live for
ever. 27. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn
unto the LORD, and all the
kindreds of the nations shall worship before Thee. 28. For
the Kingdom is the LORD'S and he
is the governor among the nations. 29. All they that be
fat upon earth shall eat and
worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him;
none can keep alive his own soul.
30. A seed shall serve Him: it shall be accounted to the
LORD for a generation. 31.
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a
people that shall be born, that
he hath done this.
MY
REFLECTIONS ON THIS PSALM.
Question 1: Who is
speaking? Primarily this is King David who is praying in great need.
When
we read God's Word, we must remember it had a TWO FOLD PURPOSE
(1) in FORTH TELLING what is
known already from God and (2) FORE-TELLING what is
yet to occur.
We call this PREACHING OR SHARING THE WORD, and PROPHESYING
HIS WORDS WHICH YET HAVE TO HAPPEN.
My Answer is that first of all David is torn with deep
despair WHERE ARE YOU GOD ?
His despair rises from the
knowledge that like everyone else, He is a sinner that sins, and it
seems at times, like God has
forsaken him. The second part of my answer is that through the
Holy Spirit, God gave David words that DO NOT APPLY to him, but to the COMING
ONE WHO WILL
BE CRUCIFIED that all might
believe. It was written in Galatians 3.10 regarding what the Torah
says about it - "Cursed is every one that hangeth by a tree."
Galatians states "Christ (Messiah)
hath redeemed us from the curse
of the law, being made a curse, for, it is written, Cursed is
every one that hangeth on a
tree." that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through
Jesus Christ., that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith."
Galatians 3.13,14 This was what
Moses declared in the Law, Deuteronomy 21.22,23 in which no one that hanged was
accursed. If a person was hanged, they did not bury him, but let the
birds eat on the body till there was nothing left. To bury that person
was to "defile the land" inheritance that God promised His People.
Question 2 When reading the description of the physical conditions
described in this
psalm, you can take only one of two
views. One, that it was far fetched and not at all true, but that is the
way David felt about what he was going through, or Two, that it is a Prophetic
View
that King David had of the SEED
OF ABRAHAM that would come THROUGH KING DAVID'S LINE
to be the one to deal with sin
and bind Satan's curse. The Promise in Genesis 3.15 is that
the seed of the woman would
bruise Satan's head, although Satan would bruise "his heel".
Question 3
Why is it that the ONE WHO IS SUFFERING SEPARATION FROM GOD can DECLARE
HIS NAME "TO HIS
BRETHREN?" if not that Jesus, Y'shua, actually was separated from the GOD
INVISIBLE by the GOD-MAN who was very visible, and truly died a most vicious
death. He
goes on to say "In the midst
of the congregation will I praise Thee." Only if Jesus said He
was
who He was, and if He died, the
Righteous One for those who had been separated from God,
only if He took on our physical
nature and became Man...would this Psalm be explained.
My plea is that if you have never seen Jesus as the Mediator between God
and Man
now would be the time to give
that thought a second look.
John 3.13 - 16 Jesus said Himself these words to Nicodemus, a
member of the Sanhedrin,
"And no man hath ascended up
to heaven but he that came down from heaven, the Son of man which is in heaven.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of
man be lifted up. That whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have
everlasting life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son
that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
for God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the
world through Him might be saved." John 3.18 goes on that Jesus said
"He that believeth on Him is not condemned; but he that believeth not is
condemned already, because
he hath not believed in the name
of the only Begotten Son of God."
In a future post I will discuss the reason why Psalm 22, 23 and 24 link together
in my mind on the matter of Jesus
the Son of Man, who in the book of John declared "He that sees me seeth
the Father." John 14 .7 then, right before that he said " I am
the Way, the Truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but by me."
To
walk with Jesus we must first believe Who He Was, Is, and Always will be - The
Living One who is The Way, the Truth and the Life.
HERE IS JESUS TALKING WITH NICODEMUS IN THE EVENING
EARLY IN HIS MINISTRY. HE KNEW HE HAD COME FOR
THE REASON OF PAYING THE PRICE OF OUR SIN
HE TOLD NICODEMUS
"EVEN AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS
EVEN SO MUST THE SON OF MAN BE LIFTED UP...
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY
BEGOTTEN SON THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM
SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
John 3 verse 14 - 16.
