More thankful reflections

I was reading in Psalms 45 this morning. I was having a hard time understanding what David was trying to say, and who the psalm was talking about. If you read it, it looks like he is writing a secular king. But, how does that apply to my personal walk with God? So, I looked it up in the New American Standard Bible and it had this footnote which I thought was very insightful.

Psalm 45:1 Jesus spoke of what was written of Him "in the Psalms" (see Luke 24:44). This is one such Messianic psalm. However, the capitalization indicating the deity is offered provisionally. The chapter is written against the background of a secular royal wedding. But the New Testament reference to this psalm in Heb. 1:8, 9, where verses 6 and 7 of Psalm 45 are quoted and applied to Christ, makes any other interpretation seem incidental in importance.

So now as I look over it again, it makes sense that the psalmist IS writing this as if it was to an earthly monarch. But it refers to Christ!

I am thankful to God for the resources that I have to help me understand him better. I was preparing for my sermon Sunday and I was using the bible software that Jesse bought. It has almost every resource imaginable. So, if I had a question about anything I could get it answered with the click of a button.

I am also thankful for the godly men that have translated the bible and written those resouces so that I could know my God better

John

^{vs 17} I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.