My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by night, but I find no rest. In you our ancestors put their trust;
they trusted and you delivered them. To you they cried out and were saved;
in you they trusted and were not put to shame. Yet you brought me out of the womb;
you made me trust in you, even at my mother's breast. I will declare your name to my people;
in the assembly I will praise you. (Psalm 22:1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 22 NIV)
David is fearful and doubts. He is suffering and endangered in ways many of us never experience. I live safe and well fed in America. But people throughout the world live most of their life afflicted and in danger. David has cried out to the Lord and he feels abandoned. Yet, even then David trusts his Lord and remembers Gods faithfulness to him and to those who came before him.
I was not looking forward to this psalm after the first two verses, but when I read through to the end I found strength and faith. I pray that like David I would trust in the Lord even when I feel alone and when I feel God has not answered my cry. For God is faithful. He has been faithful before and he remain faithful.
And we know David was saved in this time of affliction.
Yet more important was the joy of his salvation in the Lord. For I think the Spirit revealed the day of Jesus an d his salvation. David wrote:
All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him, for dominion belongs to the Lord
and he rules over the nations. All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—
those who cannot keep themselves alive. Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord. They will proclaim his righteousness,
declaring to a people yet unborn:
He has done it!
(Psalm 22:27-31 NIV)
And I proclaim Jesus is Lord and savior. He has done it!
Amen
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