Any Bible student knows that one picture of our Lord’s Ordeal on the Cross is that of a drowning man.

I will give one example … “Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.” Psalm 88:6-7, Jesus prophetically speaking to His Father!

But of course, our Theme for this Series of Lessons is the SOUL Sufferings of our Lord, the SPIRITUAL Sufferings.

And as I was studying this Verse (I think it providential) the Lord showed me another “drowning” metaphor. Still depicting our dear Lord Jesus on the Cross.

But this one also includes Jesus’ SOUL Suffering on Calvary’s Hill. Psalm 69:1 is our Focus this morning … “Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.” This is Jesus, still praying to His Father, viewed through the lens of Bible Prophecy.

See the drowning “word picture” here?

“Waters,” clearly plural for emphasis, for added intensity.

But notice that last word in the Verse, both in English and in Hebrew matter of fact!

Jesus speaks of His “Soul,” specifically.

Again, I remind you this is not a specific reference to Jesus’ bodily discomfort, torture, suffering.

But to Jesus’ SPIRITUAL, SOUL Agony on Mount Calvary, nailed to that old, rugged Tree!

The Hebrew noun for “soul” is spelled “nephesh.” And 475 times in the Old Testament it is translated just that way, “soul.”

What does that mean?

What depths of “Separation for God” does that entail?

No one knows but the Godhead, I suspect.

But we can at least take this from our Verse, very practical … a deeper love for our Lord, Who underwent such floodtides of God’s Wrath that we might be saved!

He (spiritually) drowned there that “Day of all Days” … that we might enjoy the pleasures of a Holy, Almighty God!

What a Saviour!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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