Daily Wisdom..."Exercised Faith"

“My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?”  Psa 22:1

David in the midst of his own personal anguish utters the same words Jesus would speak some 1,020 years later from the Cross (Mt. 27:46) while carrying our burden of sin; yet these words were not a cry of doubt, but an urgent appeal to God.   This may be applied to any child of God, pressed down, overwhelmed with grief and terror. But even the complaint of such burdens is a sign of spiritual life, and spiritual senses exercised.  “…why hast thou forsaken me?” is the language of a heart binding up its hope, trust and faith in God's favour; this must be applied to Christ.  Being truly man, Christ felt a natural unwillingness to pass through such great sorrows, yet his zeal and love prevailed. Christ declared the holiness of God, his heavenly Father, in his sharpest of sufferings by enduring in God’s will and knowing “Our fathers trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them.” (vs 5)  Psalm 22 cries out complaints of discouragement with prayers for deliverance and lifts praises for mercy and redemption.  We cannot rejoice in God as our song, unless we ourselves trust upon Him as our strength and take the comfort of spiritual hope, when we cannot have spiritual delights.

The same God that offers up blessings is the same God who provides deliverance; either case it requires the same FAITH! 

HSAY...Todd