from my journal: October 2010
Psalm 22: “Concerning the morning aid”
This, the title of Psalm 22 in the LXX: concerning the morning aid.
It’s a psalm of deep, intense pain.
A psalm Jesus knew, for He shouted the start of it from the depths of His immense agony.
A psalm He fulfilled, with its descriptions of what He endured.
The darkness and suffering of Calvary.
Sorrow and pain.
Aloneness and being deserted.
Crying out and feeling unanswered in the depths of despair.
Sobbing and sleepless in the night. God seeming so far away.
Life pouring out like water. Strength drying up.
Counting my bones for I am unable to eat.
Bereft.
And into the dark night of my soul comes this word:
the morning aid.
Say it aloud and it is my mourning aid.
Then I know that He will grant an end to this sorrow that for now is all consuming. That one day I shall know His love and comfort in all their realities. For,
“even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.” (Psalm 139:12)
He will come. He does come.
“His coming is as certain as the morning.” (Hosea 6:3, old French version)
And He promised to come.
“I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, desolate, bereaved, forlorn, helpless]; I will come [back] to you.” (John 14:18, Amplified Bible)
Through it all, in it all, He is there ; and if I do not yet know Him in it with me, I will. I will.
“Oh, that we might know the Lord!
Let us press on to know him.
He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn
or the coming of rains in early spring.” (Hosea 6:3)
