Psalm 2 God is in Control You’re Never Lost When You Stay With Him.

Psalm 2 is a short chapter in the Bible with writing credits given to King David of Israel in the bible. David was anointed to be king of Israel in his teenage years, but wouldn’t ascend to the throne until he reached middle age.

David went through many trials and tribulations he was at death’s door many times. Even his predecessor was trying to kill him, and David lived in hiding for several years.

The book Psalms contains a painful beauty, and David wrote many of them. They were written while he was on the run, but David stuck with God, he believed in God and knew that he wouldn’t lead him astray.

This is something we can take and use in our own life. David was a man after God’s own heart. But he was hunted like a dog, lived in rat-infested caves, and finally lived with his enemies.

His trust in God was unwavering, and he believed God would do what he said and fulfill his promise.

This is why David wrote in the 23rd Psalm; even when I go through the valley of the shadow of death, I won’t fear. Because God was nearby, and he believed that God would see him through it.

That’s what I like so much about Psalm 2, it states who he is under God’s authority, and he is warning the nations around him about it.

Since the chapter is so short I opted to highlight the entire chapter and leave my breakdown/analysis before and after the actual writing.

Psalm 2: God is in Control, and Man Cannot Change That.

¹ Why are the nations so angry?
    Why do they waste their time with futile plans?
² The kings of the earth prepare for battle;
    the rulers plot together
against the Lord
    and against his anointed one.
³ “Let us break their chains,” they cry,
    “and free ourselves from slavery to God.”

⁴ But the one who rules in heaven laughs.
    The Lord scoffs at them.
⁵ Then in anger he rebukes them,
    terrifying them with his fierce fury.
⁶ For the Lord declares, “I have placed my chosen king on the throne
    in Jerusalem, on my holy mountain.”

⁷ The king proclaims the Lord’s decree:
“The Lord said to me, ‘You are my son.
    Today I have become your Father.
⁸ Only ask, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance,
    the whole earth as your possession.
⁹ You will break them with an iron rod
    and smash them like clay pots.’”

¹⁰ Now then, you kings, act wisely!
    Be warned, you rulers of the earth!
¹¹ Serve the Lord with reverent fear
    and rejoice with trembling.
¹² Submit to God’s royal son, or he will become angry,
    and you will be destroyed in the midst of all your activities—
for his anger flares up in an instant.
    But what joy for all who take refuge in him!

Psalm 2:1-12

Psalm 2: Commentary, Breakdown, and Analysis

Giving a brief overview of Psalm 2 we see that People tend to make plans, but when we do that without God he laughs at us. We are not promised tomorrow, and when we follow Christ any plans we make without him could fall by the wayside.

I’ve been thinking about this lately and realized that I always make plans but those plans NEVER come to fruition. Instead, God makes me change direction and I’ll find myself in an epic new place.

I think often in our lives we make plans that crowd God out. If he has no place in the plans that we strive for, then we’ve crowded him out of our lives. What life do we have without God?

This is one of the issues in today’s day and age. It mirrors what David is saying in this chapter. Our society isn’t progressive it’s regressive.

We believe science will save us, and that God doesn’t exist. Or we say he’s old-fashioned waiting to strike us with a lightning bolt.

And worst of all, many believe we don’t need him.

However, we don’t understand he’s the source of our existence, God is the source of love, joy, peace, and everything good. If we could get a sense of the LOVE he has for us. I think the entire world would come to him instantly.

Isn’t that what we are all looking for anyway? Someone who loves us for who we are and that love is never in doubt?

That’s the love God gives us. All we need to do is ask for it and he will show up with it.

Many of us fail to realize this much less ask God for it. We feel like we aren’t worthy of it, God will fail us, or we can do better than him.

These faulty assumptions are based on a bad understanding of the character of God. So let me set some of these straight.

While we were sinners Jesus came and died for us (Romans 5:8). This means we can’t earn the blessings of salvation. This was all a gift and when you say I need to be a better person before I come to God. You’re stating that the sacrifice of Jesus wasn’t enough.

This is a huge fallacy because no person is worthy, only Jesus is. But he came and built a bridge so we could be with him for eternity.

Psalm 2: What Following God Gives Us:

When we follow God he gives us access to the lives we should’ve been living before sin crept into the world. If we don’t follow God, we choose to do our own thing and reject him. When that happens, we reject everything he creates and gives us.

In addition to that, there are a lot of people who don’t believe in God. These people choose to believe that he doesn’t exist, or if he did exist then he isn’t that active in the world anymore.

I’ve heard the question posed many times. Why is there so much pain in the world if God is in control? How can a loving God sit by and let it all happen?

What if the problem isn’t God?

The problem isn’t God, it’s us. We created the sin, and sin created the problems. For example, we could feed the world this instant ending starvation forever, but for some reason, we don’t.

We get in the way of ourselves, greed, apathy, laziness, and much more. These things stop us from doing the good work God has called us to do. Many people are already working towards this, but many others are focused on temporary things.

We have to realize God sees this period spent on earth as a short expanse (time is nothing to him). What God cares about is eternity, and spending it with him. This is why he allows us to experience pain, heartache, and the bad things in life.

He hopes we will turn to him in these dark times, and live our lives in concert with him. Dark times help us understand God more. And they give us a contrast of life with God and without. They teach us valuable lessons about his heart and reveal what way to go.

Think of David again as he writes Psalm 2, he wasn’t writing it in a place of victory. Much of the Psalms were written in dark uncomfortable places.

Everything God does is good, we are the ones who’ve allowed ourselves to be overcome by evil. But God saw this and sent his son Jesus to die for us, and that’s how we can receive salvation through him.

The death and resurrection of Jesus, allow us to connect with God, and live with him for eternity. This is the beauty of the cross, and it shows us how much God loves us.

If you want to know this God, confess to him that you have sinned. And believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. Pray to him, and ask him to show you who he is.

After that, I suggest getting a bible and reading it, In addition to that find a church that preaches from the Bible, sermons are great, but if they don’t match up with the Bible you’re in the wrong place. Many churches preach sermons that feel good but they don’t have any substance.

Psalm 2: God Laughs at His Enemies

Psalm 2 specifically talks about God laughing at his enemies when they rise against him. While we don’t have kings and queens in this world, remember that God is in charge of everything, and when people think they can take God down, or make something outside of him. the ruler of everything, it never ends well when people come out against God.

That is the issue we have right now in America. We have people glorifying themselves over God, and other people are standing still. This is the point of Psalm 2, people choose to be evil, but that is testing God.

“Evil prospers when good people do nothing”

As a people, we should stand up against the evil in our midst and cast it out. It needs to be done with the love of Jesus, because these people are all children of God, and he loves them. Paul was doing evil against the church, but look at his transformation, you could be working next to someone who could change the world.

But we need to trust in the lord and keep spreading the love of Jesus, that’s the only way we can win this battle. In Psalm 2 I’m reminded that God is here for us, because he loves us and as long as we are chasing after him. He will allow no lasting harm come to us.

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