MONDAY 11th
Psalm 2
NIV (vv11-12) – ‘Serve the LORD with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling. Kiss his son, or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.’
ESV (vv11-12) – ‘Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.’
There is an older hymn that goes ‘Hail to the Lord’s anointed, great David’s greater Son’ This Psalm has a prophetical inference pointing to the magnificent day when the Lord Jesus Christ will sit upon the throne of David, and what a day it will be as he establishes his reign upon the earth. It is a Psalm of triumph, for it reminds us that even though the nations rage and people plot, ultimately God has already triumphed. In the present he allows what is taking place among the nations of the earth, because it will all eventually lead to the coronation of his eternal Son.
The world schemes, the people seek to plot, the sinner continues in his sin, they walk as I mentioned yesterday on the road to destruction not realising that God is in control, God is sovereign and his will and purpose will finally be seen and acknowledged by all.
The Psalmist says here in this chapter that God laughs, he sees the plotting and the scheming, the activity that is inspired from the pit of hell itself to try and frustrate the purposes of God, but it is God who will have the last laugh for he has already procured the victory through the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.
What is pictured in this Psalm is continuing to happen through the realm of time and in particular the day of grace, the era of the building of the church. The nations still rage, the people still plot, the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Church, the people of God, the ones who have been called out to become His body, the bride of Christ. It happened immediately after the day of Pentecost through the persecution that broke out against those who belonged to the Way, it has continued throughout each succeeding generation, it is happening in a widespread way today as the Church is fast becoming marginalised and becoming an unwanted company of people, but they can plot, they can scheme for the promise of Jesus stands sure that they will not prevail, his Church will be competed and one day after he has raptured his Church to become his bride in heaven, he will return with her as his saints to sit upon the throne of his Father David. And when he comes, he will break the plotters and schemers with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
His rule and reign is guaranteed, the day will fast approach when all will bow the knee and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, therefore as the words of this Psalm say, ‘Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling, kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way for his wrath is quickly kindled’ thankfully the Psalm ends with these words, ‘Blessed (there it is again ‘happy’) are all who take refuge in him.’
Today, ‘Hail the Lord’s anointed’, know him as your Saviour and know him as your Lord and King. Take refuge in him, daily kiss him with your love and devotion, allow him to rule in your heart and life.