Psalm 70 captures humanity's universal cry for help in times of distress. Beginning with 'Make haste, O God, to deliver me,' this prayer acknowledges our need for divine intervention when facing enemies, difficult relationships, and our own shortcomings. While we often seek salvation in human relationships, control, or various forms of escape, true deliverance comes only from God. This psalm teaches us to bring our unfiltered selves before God while recognizing that He alone can save us. The Christian faith uniquely responds to this cry with God giving Himself completely through Christ's sacrifice, offering genuine hope and redemption.

Psalm 69 presents David's raw cry to God in the midst of overwhelming suffering, describing himself as drowning in floodwaters with no foothold. This psalm speaks powerfully to our experience in a broken world filled with natural disasters, betrayal, ridicule, physical suffering, and the weight of our own sinful hearts. David's initial response is understandable—he calls for justice and even destruction upon his enemies. While our desire for justice reflects God's character, Christ teaches us a more excellent way.Remarkably, many verses in Psalm 69 point directly to Jesus, who was hated without cause, consumed with zeal for God's house, and given sour wine on the cross. Christianity doesn't offer a neat intellectual solution to suffering, but rather a God who enters our suffering. The crosses we bear—those places where brokenness hurts us most—are not dismissed by God but intimately known by Him. Christ says, 'I will go to that place. I will know it intimately.' Though suffering awaits us everywhere in this life, we can approach it differently knowing that Christ bears it with us, and that through His resurrection, God promises to make all things new.

Psalm 68 celebrates God's deliverance of His people to the promised land, likely written by David for the Ark of the Covenant's procession to Jerusalem. The psalm portrays God as the defender of the vulnerable, father to the fatherless, and protector of widows. While addressing the difficult topic of the Canaanite conquest, it emphasizes this was God's divine judgment coupled with grace, as exemplified by Rahab's salvation. Ultimately, Psalm 68 points to Christ's ascension and the future where people from all nations will worship the true King who rules with justice and welcomes all into His family.