Psalm 22

Our Psalm this week was 22; it is the Psalm that Christ recites part of when he's crucified crying out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" If you read this same Psalm in the Message, a contemporary version of the Bible, it reads,
"God, God...my God! Why did you dump me
miles from nowhere?
Doubled up with pain, I call to God
all the day long. No answer. Nothing.
I keep at it all night, tossing and turning."

I can understand the Psalmist feeling this way. Aren't there times when all of us feel like God has dumped us in the middle of nowhere and left us? I'm sure there are lots of people who are feeling that now-people without jobs, with no good out-look in the future, trying to make do with what they have while taking care of families. People who've lost loved ones, who feel like life will never be the same and don't understand why these things have happened.

Are there times when you've felt like this?

The Psalmist also reminds us however, that while we might feel like God has left us.....we're wrong. God has been there all along. Something changes halfway through this Psalm....some revelation by God, some reminder of God's presence that changes the mood of the Psalm from one of self-pity and whineyness to one of worship and gratitude.

The truth is God is big enough to take all of that......the anger, the disappointment, and the gratitude.

What do you think?!