September 1, 2024
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Reading along with us in selections from Psalms and Proverbs? Here’s today’s reading:
Psalms 21-22 (NIV)
For the director of music. A psalm of David.
1 The king rejoices in your strength, Lord.
How great is his joy in the victories you give!
2 You have granted him his heart’s desire
and have not withheld the request of his lips.……Continue Reading
In reading Psalm 22 one can`t help but notice that the vast majority of this Psalm { 1-21} is about the crucifixion of Christ Jesus. The second part refers to His Kingship and He is to be worshipped. The chapter starts off with: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? Mark 15:34; Mathew 27:46. Other verses like 7,8 {All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shout out the lip; they shake the head saying; He trusted on the Lord that He would deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.} Matthew 27:39,43. Or verse 16{ For dogs have compassed me; the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.} Matthew 27:35. Take note in Psalm 22:14 {I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; It is melted in the midst of my bowels.} Aren`t these also resulted from crucifixion? We know that when someone was crucified their bones would become out of joint. Then the guards would break the bones of legs of the one being crucified. In Jesus they didn`t for He was already dead. Of course there are plenty of scriptures in the Old Testament that prophecy of Christ`s crucifixion. These are only a few in Psalm 22. God bless you all in the Lord.
Life has its ups and downs but God is always with us throughout.
Psalm 21-22
26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied;
Those who seek Him will praise the LORD.
Let your heart live forever!
27 All the ends of the world
Shall remember and turn to the LORD,
And all the families of the nations
Shall worship before You.
”But You are He who took Me out of the womb; You made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts. I was cast upon You from birth. From My mother’s womb You have been My God.“
Psalms 22:9-10 NKJV
I was thinking yesterday after Pastors sermon on abortion about how many of God’s plans for man start with a baby. God tells Abraham that his offspring will be as the stars and the sand. Moses is delivered as a baby from the mass killing of babies by Pharoah. Joseph fled with Mary and baby Jesus to Egypt to escape, again, mass genocide of babies. What plan of God is Satan trying to thwart? The first plan of God: be fruitful and multiply has been replaced with decrease the population to “save” the earth from global warming.
Psalm 21-22
Oh to have a government official that fears and follows God as David seeks Him here and credits Him with all that he has and has done! This is a royal Psalm where David as king worships God for all that He has established in and through him. He trusts in Him as every leader in any sector of society should, but those are few and far between outside the church. But that should in no way dampen any desire on our part to seek Him in our lives. And as I read Psalm 22, I couldn’t help but think to what extent David knew what He was writing. Certainly there are aspects of what is here that is about His life and circumstances, but how this mirrors what Jesus went through as well. But in both their cases and in ours as well, regardless of what we are going through, God is always a place of refuge, support, provision and protection. It is what He is doing and providing that matters, not what others are doing to us. May our focus remain on Him and the purposes He is fulfilling in the things that He does and allows.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from my cries of anguish?
2My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by night, but I find no rest.
Jesus cries out to God while he is suffering, and this is us too at very difficult times in our lives. But like Jesus’ resurrection, we too make it through the suffering and come out of it on the other side, victorious. And trust is mentioned 5 times in verses 1 through 11. When we do this, we surrender to God’s will, resulting in peace and rest regardless of the circumstances.