Psalm 22

What a Psalm!

It's so nice to hear such a familiar New Testament message told so beautifully in the Old Testament. It's the gospel that the OT points forward to...

Beginning with Jesus crying out in agony and feeling almost despondent on the cross, cut off from life, that is, the Father (v1). The Son pleads with the Father (v2), but He does not answer, but still the Father is holy and worthy to be trusted (v3-5).

He's like a worm! A worm! The Son of God - God himself- is treated as if a worm. Bare and made physically and emotionally empty. Scorned and despised. Mocked. (v6-9)

Here comes the prophecy: surrounded, bones out of joint (v14), as brittle as dried up pottery, dying. Pierced hands and feet, so skinny that his bones can be counted and his garments divided among the executioners. Yet still, his trust, reliance and dependence is unwaveringly caught on the Father to rescue him (v19-21).

As unexpected as it might be for a man to rise from death, comes the joy of the next few verses (v22-24). Something's happened. The affliction's over, he's made alive, free from the pain, now praising the Father's name!

Verses 27-31: He's been made King over the whole Earth, everybody needs to turn to Him and He welcomes all who come. He will be judge (v29). His story, his achievement, his salvation, will be told to the ends of the Earth "that he has DONE IT!"