Friday, February 22, 2013
Psalm 22:1-2 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning? O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; And in the night season, and am not silent.
NO LONGER OUR CRY
Isn't it amazing, truly amazing, this cry of David, this plea of the sinner that the Lord would listen and heal. David was a king, a saint, one whom the Lord loved. The Lord constantly referred to him as "my servant David." And yet here we find that we are his equals. Equals not in holiness, equals not in goodness, but equals in depravity, equals in sin.
My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? The heart of the sinner cries out to the Lord, in agony. For the heart does not know what to do with itself. What am I going to do, the heart says? I have tried to live a good life, I have tried to do the right things, but I have not done them. Even the apostle Paul makes the same heart wrenching groan of agony, Romans 7:24, "O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?"
Yet Paul gives us the answer. Romans 8:1, "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus." What is even more amazing about this verse (Ps 22:1), is the realization that it is NOT the cry of David, nor is it our cry. It ought to be our cry. We often think it is our cry. We often act as if it is our cry. But the Lord has taken it from us. He has taken it out of our mouth and put it in his own. Jesus was forsaken so that we need never be. There is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Not even our own mouths are able to condemn us.
