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NASB | Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Far from my deliverance are the words of my groaning. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? [Matt 27:46] |
Bible Question (short): What do you think of Jesus? |
Question (full): What do you think of Jesus which is called the Christ? I have been meditating on Psalm 22 and I have been considering the vivid images of the death of Christ upon the Cross. I find that when I consider the words of the psalmist and of the literal fulfilment at Calvary, I bow in adoration and worship before the Lamb of God who is my saviour. This graphic picture of crucifixion was not a Jewish mode of execution, but was Roman. Is it not amazing that the things which were written of the Savior in the Psalms were fulfilled literally by the Romans. This was no accident, we can see the hand of God in his wonderous love as he allows his only Son to be so cruely treated by humans and most of all that Jesus bore the judgement for our sins as he offered himself without spot unto God. I have listed verse one which immediately takes us to that noon day scene in which the sun refused to shine Matt.27:45 and to the nineth hour in which we hear that cry of abandonment and agony by our Saviour "My God, My God Why hast thou forsaken me? Matt. 27:46 I would be interested in hearing the devotional views of others on this Psalm. I realize that there are prepared lists of the prophecies and yet I wonder how often we truly as it were step into the shadow of the Cross and try to comprehend what it meant for our Savior "to be made sin for us"? |