Morning Moments

Psalm 22:1-31 (HCSB)
1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? ⌊Why are You⌋ so far from my deliverance and from my words of groaning?

There are those times of desperation in all our lives when we wonder if God has forsaken us. We agonize but realize nothing is happening and we just don’t understand it. IF God is love and IF God cares for us so, then why has He left us to ourselves? The truth is that He has not and never will. In these moments we recognize our complete helplessness.

2 My God, I cry by day, but You do not answer, by night, yet I have no rest.

Does this sound like life on the higher plane to you? Does this sound like one who is on of God’s chosen? If not, it is because you have never shared in the fellowship of His sufferings. Teary, tired, and feeling trampled we troupe through as if God is on vacation somewhere.

3 But You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

BUT YOU! I love those words. It is like saying I’m through, finished, and quitting, BUT YOU are enthroned and holy and ready to live as I die. I am in the dirt looking to heaven, but You are in heaven looking upon dirt, from which you can make a man…ME!

4 Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted, and You rescued them.

I have the record and the record is clear – they trusted and you rescued. That is how this whole things works with you. Your timing is equal to your truth. “In the fullness of time”, that’s how you work precious Lord and you always wait until I can’t but realize You CAN.

5 They cried to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disgraced.

We soon discover in our walk with Jesus that He doesn’t “come” until He hears us cry. There is no lack in Him, no forgetting or forsaking us. As it was for them, so it is with us, and will shall not be disgraced.


6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by people.

This is prophetic of Jesus, but oh, the despair that David felt and others like Noah and Elijah. It is obvious that all the people (family, disciples) did not despised Jesus, and they do not us, but it certainly seems so when we are so far down in a black hole.


8 “He relies on the Lord; let Him rescue him; let the Lord deliver him, since He takes pleasure in him.”

This is said to Jesus also. This is certainly evidence of verbal inspiration of Scripture. We can hear it now; some smart Alec in the crowd shouting to Jesus who spoke as never a man spoke, and did mighty works among many witnesses, “If you are the deliver, you had best deliver yourself.” They railed on Him and the Psalmist obviously felt a measure of the pain and agony here.

9 You took me from the womb, making me secure while at my mother’s breast.

The page is beginning to turn, the heart of this man is being moved toward the Father as he speaks of God’s care of him all of his life. Someone asked, “What has God ever done for me?” The answer is simple – let you live so that you might abandon yourself to Him.

10 I was given over to You at birth; You have been my God from my mother’s womb.

Now dawn is breaking for this broken heart. He begins to look beyond himself to the very One who gave him life and has watched over him all these days. How foolish of us to think God has done nothing for us. Our hearts do not beat without His attention. And it has been so since before our birth.

My friend, yours is not the only heart to be broken. At least God has been gracious to let you feel something. Some of us so harden our hearts we feel nothing for anyone or anything thing. But God's Word is as a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces. Get in the Word and let it break you harded heart. THEN and ONLY THEN will you see the need for total abandonment to Him who loves you and gave Himself for you.

BLESSINGS!