That would be, in the eyes of Bible honoring scholars anyway, Psalm 22. It’s about a man dying on a cross. That Man (prophetically speaking) being Jesus Christ, the Son of God!

Watch how the Psalm begins. “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? “ Yes, that’s Verse 1.

Jesus appropriated these words, putting them on His Own lips as He died on Calvary. Matthew tells us precisely: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

And Mark agrees: “And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Mark 15:34

Then, just a few minutes later … apparently less than an hour … Jesus died!

But not without quoting the last Verse of Psalm 22! Here we transition from Hebrew to Greek. Let me show you.

Psalm 22:31, its last Clause. “He that done this.”

Now the Greek, John 19:30 … “It is finished!” 

The Whole Verse: “When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.”

He died immediately after saying that all (His Work of the Cross) was done!

My point today …

Looks like Jesus pondered, meditated, thought upon Psalm 22, from start to finish, the Day He died for this lost world!

Obviously in His last little while nailed to that cruel tree!

Wow!

I do not know how much the Psalms mean to you, Christian friend. But I do know what they meant to Jesus! I suspect He studied them every day! In fact, He might still be doing so!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

Read a few Psalms today, thinking of your Lord!

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