Jesus' Psalm

Read Psalm 22:1-8

Jesus knew what was ahead for Him. I guess we don’t know when He knew but He knew. It’s clear in His years of ministry that He knew because He kept telling His disciples that He must suffer and die. As a young Jewish person I wonder how often He had His daily Bible reading time in Psalm 22. Psalms are thought of as songs of praise. But for a person who knows the cross is ahead for Him what did He think of Psalm 22. Psalms were written hundreds of years before Jesus was born. Yet Psalm 22 so accurately describes what happened to Jesus. When He was on the cross dying He quoted the first line of Psalm 22. Was He using scripture memory to comfort Himself? Or was He acknowledging this Psalm was always about Him.

For the next three days we will read a part of Psalm 22. As you read it think about what Jesus thought every time He read this Psalm. Think about what this baby savior had ahead of Him.