1   My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?   2   O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. ~ PSALM 22:1-2

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This is one of the saddest Psalms in the Bible. Most Psalms were written due to some event in David’s life, or the lives of other known authors, but this Psalm is different. There is no event that triggered these words. This is strictly the Spirit of prophecy on David, foretelling the suffering of Christ on the Cross. This was human suffering. You were in Him then. This is the death He was dying with you in Him. Paul says in Phil 3:10-11, “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead”. To know Him in His resurrection, you must know Him in His death.