Why can we pray? How can we know God? How can we stand before him in judgment? Only because he has given us new life in Jesus. It's not knowing stuff or doing stuff - but trusting in Jesus! Knowledge and good works are important in the Christian life, but they flow from being connected to Jesus.

God is passionate about justice. There is a great day of judgment to come where there will be a great righting of everything. We can rest in knowing he will do all things well and know that on that day, we can stand because of the great day of judgment upon the cross when Jesus died in our place!

Wow! Paul could be describing Wales and the rest of the UK. Our experiment of making our own truth based upon what we feel has been a disaster. Paul reminds us of the truth that we see in God's creation and points us to a God who is kind and willing to forgive through his Son Jesus.

Paul is not ashamed of the good news - he is so excited about the church in Rome as he hears about what God is doing in saving people. May we have the same eagerness to tell people about the Saviour, Jesus Christ and the same interest in praying for churches, even those we have never met.

Jesus is at the centre of the good news. His resurrection is like a megaphone from heaven telling us who Jesus is. He is the king of Psalm 2; the Son of David who has been installed on God's holy hill. This good news transforms us as his holy people who are loved by God.

Let's learn to pray like Jesus - praying for trust, saying sorry for our sin and turning from it, asking God to teach us his ways and giving thanks for the hope we have in Jesus.

Jesus endured the shame of the cross and bore our sin as if it was his own. Hallelujah! What a Saviour!

There is a Man in heaven - Jesus - he will make reunite heaven and earth and make everything new. And we are 'in Christ' - think of him there and how pleased the Father is with him - we are in Christ!

Jesus tested the truth of this psalm to the absolute extreme so as we walk in Jesus, we can be confident of every word of it!

Jesus has done it! We can trust him even in the darkest places and follow his example of prayerful faith.