Luke 4:14-21 and Psalm 19
One of the goals of human history is the fulfillment of scripture in our experience. The fulfillment, of which the scripture speaks, is not so much a prediction of events coming true, but more like the completion of a plan coming together. Prophecy was concerned with revealing the plan of a salvation that God was bringing to the whole of creation, earth and humanity. Luke 4 records that the plan is fulfilled during a gathering of God’s people, around his word, with Jesus being present. Jesus proclaimed this to his audience at the synagogue. And it is what Psalm 19 said is experienced when we see the phenomena of the heavens from day to day. Each day we hear the plan of God’s salvation in the speech of the heavens. It’s where the merging of the glory of God, his works, and the word of God occur. Amazing! The heavens have been announcing the plan! 

Jesus, like the heavens, is a merging of the glory of God, his works, and word. He is the embodiment of Psalm 19. His life, death and resurrection on our behalf, by faith, brings the fulfillment of the scriptures to our experience. God’s desire is for us to experience his goodness and glory in a variety of ways, as Jesus and the Psalm describes, but it only happens through faith and submission to the scripture. We can experience this goodness and glory of God at the Table of our Lord. For here, Jesus, the Living Word, presents us with that same, bold assertion of the scripture being fulfilled in our hearing today.