ENTRUSTING OUR LIVES TO GOD (3 OF 6)
Entrusting Our Lives to God (3 of 6)
Series: Summer in the Psalms
Jonathan McLeod
Psalm 31
Into you hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God (v. 5).
PSALM 31 AND JESUS
Psalm 31 was written by David. It's a psalm of an innocent sufferer. The Gospel of Luke tells us that just before Jesus died, he cried out, ''Father, into your hands I commit my spirit'' (Luke 23:46). These same words were written by David in Psalm 31.
It seems clear that it is not merely these few words that Jesus and the Gospel writer wished to bring to the reader's attention, but the whole context of Psalm 31 in which they originally stood. In a position of public condemnation and shame, perceived by the surrounding community to have been a criminal, a charlatan, and a failure, Jesus made his last speech the words of this psalm.
As I read Psalm 31, think to yourself about why Jesus-while he was suffering and dying-identified with David's struggles in this psalm.
[Read Psalm 31.]
DAVID'S TROUBLES
David writes, ''I hear the whispering of many-terror on every side!-as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life'' (v. 13). David had enemies who wanted to take his life. People were believing all sorts of lies about him. He wants vindi-cation, and he's trusting God to eventually bring about that vindication.
He says, ''Into your hand I commit my spirit'' (v. 5). In verse 15, he makes a similar statement: ''My times are in your hands.'' He doesn't believe that God will give him a life free from trouble and injustice. But he believes that in the end all wrongs will be made right. His enemies will be dealt with, and the truth will be known. Evil will not have the last word.
THE ULTIMATE INNOCENT SUFFERER
Jesus was the ultimate innocent sufferer. Three times in Luke 23, Pilate declared that Jesus was not guilty of any crime: (1) ''I find no guilt in this man'' (v. 4); (2) ''Nothing deserving death has been done by him'' ...
Series: Summer in the Psalms
Jonathan McLeod
Psalm 31
Into you hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God (v. 5).
PSALM 31 AND JESUS
Psalm 31 was written by David. It's a psalm of an innocent sufferer. The Gospel of Luke tells us that just before Jesus died, he cried out, ''Father, into your hands I commit my spirit'' (Luke 23:46). These same words were written by David in Psalm 31.
It seems clear that it is not merely these few words that Jesus and the Gospel writer wished to bring to the reader's attention, but the whole context of Psalm 31 in which they originally stood. In a position of public condemnation and shame, perceived by the surrounding community to have been a criminal, a charlatan, and a failure, Jesus made his last speech the words of this psalm.
As I read Psalm 31, think to yourself about why Jesus-while he was suffering and dying-identified with David's struggles in this psalm.
[Read Psalm 31.]
DAVID'S TROUBLES
David writes, ''I hear the whispering of many-terror on every side!-as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life'' (v. 13). David had enemies who wanted to take his life. People were believing all sorts of lies about him. He wants vindi-cation, and he's trusting God to eventually bring about that vindication.
He says, ''Into your hand I commit my spirit'' (v. 5). In verse 15, he makes a similar statement: ''My times are in your hands.'' He doesn't believe that God will give him a life free from trouble and injustice. But he believes that in the end all wrongs will be made right. His enemies will be dealt with, and the truth will be known. Evil will not have the last word.
THE ULTIMATE INNOCENT SUFFERER
Jesus was the ultimate innocent sufferer. Three times in Luke 23, Pilate declared that Jesus was not guilty of any crime: (1) ''I find no guilt in this man'' (v. 4); (2) ''Nothing deserving death has been done by him'' ...
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