Sunday Psalms is a weekly addition to our daily Scripture reading—a chance to slow down and linger. While daily readings help us move steadily through God’s Word, Sundays invite us to sit with a single Psalm, to meditate, and to allow Scripture to shape our hearts in the midst of the world as it is right now.

Psalm 2 follows directly after Psalm 1 and widens the lens. If Psalm 1 asks what kind of life leads to blessing, Psalm 2 asks a larger and more unsettling question: Who truly rules the world?

The Psalm opens with a scene that feels strikingly familiar. Nations rage. Peoples plot. Kings and rulers gather power and counsel together, resisting God’s authority and describing His boundaries as bondage. “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” The desire to rule ourselves—to define  ...