In This Series
- When I Am Afraid (Psalm 56)
- When I'm Not in Control (Psalm 62)
- When I'm Alone in Darkness (Psalm 88)
- When I Am Forsaken (Psalm 22)
- When I Worship (Psalm 118)
- When I Follow (Psalm 23)
- When I'm Under Your Wing (Psalm 91)
- Beginning the Ascent (Psalm 120)
- Where Will My Help Come From (Psalm 121)
- Peace for Jerusalem (Psalm 122)
- Freedom and Mercy (Psalm 123)
- God is For Us (Psalm 124)
- Doing Good (Psalm 125)
- Joy and Perspective (Psalm 126)
- Unless the Lord Builds the House (Psalm 127)
- Those Who Fear the Lord (Psalm 128)
- Suffering and Righteousness (Psalm 129)
- Occupied With Things Too Great For Me (Psalm 131)
- Obedience and Memory (Psalm 132)
- Learning to Receive (Psalm 133)
Series Info
Psalms (20)
Friday, April 10, 2020
When I Am Forsaken (Psalm 22)
Chase Replogle
Pastor
The New Testament authors often drew allusions from Old Testament words and images, but maybe never more movingly than Jesus’s words from the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Those words are from Psalm 22. As Jesus suffered on the cross, it was a psalm that filled is mind. His quotation is only from verse one, but as the pain of the cross robbed him of breath, those few words force the whole of that psalm into the darkness of that Good Friday at Golgotha. And though the psalm opens with a cry of abandonment, it goes on to offer us words of hope and faith in suffering.
