“YOU ARE HOLY!”

 Psalm 22:1-6                    (ESV)

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

    “[1] My GOD, my GOD, why have YOU forsaken me?

        Why are YOU so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? 

    [2] O my GOD, I cry by day, but YOU do not answer,

        and by night, but I find no rest.

    [3] Yet “YOU ARE HOLY”,

        enthroned on the praises of Israel. 

    [4] In YOU our fathers trusted;

        they trusted, and YOU delivered them. 

    [5] To YOU they cried and were rescued;

        in YOU they trusted and were not put to shame.

    [6] But I AM A WORM and not a man,

        scorned by mankind and despised by the people.”

Sometimes I get so overwhelmed by my sinful actions that despair and grief consume my thoughts and I can’t comprehend HOW a HOLY and RIGHTEOUS GOD could possibly LOVE a wretch such as I?  King David must have been experiencing a similar time when he wrote Psalm 22?  While David was spoken about by Samuel in 1 Samuel 13:14 as a man after GODS OWN HEART, he himself wrote in the Scripture above “My GOD, my GOD, why have YOU forsaken me”???

Why did ALMIGHTY GOD select these words as far back as when HE was having David write this Psalm 22, yet use them HIMSELF in Matthew 27:46?  I’m no Bible Scholar, but perhaps GOD wanted me to KNOW that there WILL BE TIMES when I will have to have HIS ASSURANCE that HE WILL BE with me, even when HIS PRESENCE seems far away!!!

It is IMPERATIVE that we UNDERSTAND that JESUS PAID THE PRICE to inhabit my body with HIS HOLY SPIRIT even when I am “the chief of sinners” (1 Timothy 1:15)!  “YOU ARE HOLY”, and I am NOT! I am SO BLESSED that YOU CHOSE me “before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4)!!!