This summer I am focusing on a specific Psalm each week. You are encouraged to spend time through the week reflecting on the Psalm and on what the Lord is saying to you through the Psalm. Please feel free to post some comments (what the Lord is saying to you, what you are hearing through the reading) and/or questions (what you don’t understand, or what you are wondering about).
My hope is to help you hear from the Lord through these readings, but to help others through your comments and/or questions. I also hope you use your comments and questions to help me prepare for this Sunday’s message.
When I look up into the sky (“the heavens”), I can feel the greatness and goodness of the Lord God. When I look into the pages of scripture (“the Law”), I can sense the greatness and goodness of God. I sense this Psalm urging me to meditate in my heart on the glory (greatness and goodness) of the Lord, and to speak about this to others. But the focus is the Lord God, my Rock and Redeemer (v.14), not “the heavens” or “the Law”. These are pointers to the Lord God.
David knew the Lord in a pre-Jesus way, but today we know the Lord God through Jesus, who is the glory of the Lord God revealed as a human. “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14)
Jesus is the Lord of the heavens and the Lord of the Law.
Jesus declares the glory of God and proclaims the work of his hands (Psalm 19:1).
Jesus is perfect, refreshing the soul (Psalm 19:7).
Jesus is more precious than gold, than much pure gold (Psalm 19:10).
Jesus forgives us and makes us blameless (Psalm 19:12-13).
By meditating (contemplating) on Jesus in our hearts, we are transformed by his glory, becoming pleasing in his sight (Psalm 19:14).
“And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:18)