22:1 - Most people rightly tie this verse and this Psalm to the crucifixion of Jesus in the Gospel. The problem comes in that they do not understand the meaning or the context behind the Psalm and so many (most) people have assumed that Jesus is saying that God has abandoned Him. You will hear good teachers say that God abandoned Jesus on the cross because of the sin of the world. That is a very wrong teaching. god never turned His back on God, especially not in the middle of the most obedient act in history. When the rabbis used a verse from a Psalm you had to go back and examine the WHOLE Psalm and see what the theme or meaning was. In this case, the point of Psalm 22 is that it may appear or feel like you are abandoned, but indeed you are not (vs 24). I truly believe with everything in me that Jesus wants us to go back to Psalm 22 when He quotes verse 1 so that we will understand while it may look like He is abandoned, indeed He is not!!!
22:2 - Sometimes in life it does feel like we can get no relief. Life just keeps coming like wave after wave and it keeps taking your breath away. It is like being in the ocean and every time you come up to catch your breath and another wave hits you. It does feel that way sometimes and the Bible acknowledges that. But I love verse 3 where it starts of YET.
22:6-8/12-18 - A very clear prophecy about the crucifixion. Incredible when you understand it was written 900 years before Christ!!!
22:3/9 - One of the most powerful words in the entire Bible - YET. It feels this way, it looks this way, you might think and YET it really isn't. God is teaching us through David's Psalm that no matter what it feels like, seems like, looks like, others say, you and I always need to remember the TRUTH from God. The truth of our situation is not the ultimate truth. God's truth always stands above all of it no matter what. I praise God for that. Nothing trumps God's truth.
22:19 - O Lord, do not stay far away! You are my strength; come quickly to my aid!
22:22 - I will proclaim/I will praise -
22:24 - (NASB) For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted. Neither has He hidden His face from him; But when he cried to Him for help, he heard. - This is the key to understanding this whole Psalm and what Jesus was communicating from the cross.
Love, Michael
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