Psalm 2

“Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?” (1). The psalmist wrote that human schemes to dethrone God are always “in vain.” Yet instead of immediately destroying the wicked, God’s plan was to send the Messiah. “You are my son; today I have become your father” (7). This Messiah had every right to conquer by force (9), but instead He would give His life so that “the nations” could find salvation and belong to God. “Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession” (8).

“Blessed are all who take refuge in him” (12). God is on his throne, and He gives us the chance, through his Son, to find refuge in Him.