i find it so wild how all the scripture goes back to bounce off of one another.
Psalms 18:24, i even imagine jesus during the crucifixion thinking about the reward he’s gonna receive (us, our freedom, deliverance, healing, salvation)
Or exodus describes the process of the passover and then in matt 26 we literally see the lamb who dies for the sins of the world partaking of the passover lamb knowing he was the greater sacrifice and doing all of that while his betrayer was dining at the same table as jesus and had the audacity to ask him “jesus is it i who will betray you”

• In Psalms 18:1-16; David talks about how he was oppressed by his enemy, and death encompasses him, and destruction assailed him, and Sheol entangled him; but one thing that caught my eye when I was reading this; was when He started to describe the LORD who heard his cry out to him, from heaven. And how in his distress, the LORD came running to him, and How the earth reeled, and rocked, and; how the foundations of the Earth were moved, that the mountains moved. How they quaked because He was angry. How smoke came from his nostrils and devouring fire came from his mouth. How he made the heavens bow to him. And thick darkness were under his feet. How he rode a cherub, and flew, how he came swiftly on the wings of the wind. He made darkness his covering, his canopy, thick clouds dark with water. Out of the brightness before him coming from him hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds. How when he spoke, it was like thunder in the heavens, and it was hailstone and coals of fire. How he sent arrows from his speech and they scattered everywhere. How lightning came from his mouth, and he routed where they went. How the channels of waters were seen and revealed, and the foundations of the world were uncovered and seen. He is describing God as God runs to his protection in all his glory, and how THE LORD PAYS ATTENTION TO HIM, when there seems to be other more mighty things in creation, more important than us. But we are more important to God than everything. He didn’t even care that the earth could get destroyed, or that the heavens bowed down to him. But HE WAS LOOKING AT YOU. His focus was on you. The greatest desire for anything in God’s heart, is you.

He’s basically just describing God with all mighty things in creation, and how they all formed God. And it got me thinking that this creation IS God; or I should say, God is in all things, and he is in the wind, he is in the thunder, he is in the water, he is the foundation of the earth, and the pillars of the sea. He is and was always there.

• In verses 17-19; he talks about how God delivered him. And In verses 19-24; David describes how important he is to God. How God dealt with him according to his righteousness, according to the cleanness of David’s Hands (because David had Faith in the promise of Jesus, before Jesus was on earth. And that he was cleaned because of Jesus.) He described That GOD delights in him, how because of his righteousness he was blameless before God, and THIS God in verses 7-16, He sees YOU with a glory of righteousness and purity, that now he sees that you have done it, you have kept yourself from corruption, from drinking, from masturbating, from sleeping with someone, from killing someone, from hating on someone, from hating yourself, from stealing, from any other evil and corrupt act that is NOT YOURS ANYMORE. You have not done that no more. That isn’t you. You have not done that in Jesus name. You are blameless before a God who sees everything. You are clean before God.

Take away: The Lord told me I have never sinned. He said that my sins are not mine. That I have never sinned and that I am pure, I am righteous and beautiful. My hands are clean and he is rewarding me for keeping my hands clean (But it is not me but Christ in me).