Psalm 2 Continued…
Psalms 22:3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel.
God is, just and true in all His ways. He hears our prayers, and keeps His covenant; He is a true lover of holiness, and of all holy men.
Psalms 22:4 In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.
David may have added this verse because his misery was aggravated by the thought that he was neglected and forsaken by God who had so often come to the aid of his ancestors.
Psalms 22:5 They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.
In the absence of any response from God the sufferer is cast back upon his former beliefs, foremost among them being the concept of God as just and righteous. This belief is strengthened by the long precedent of Israel’s praises for deliverance in earlier years. God had not failed to help those who trusted him in previous generations. The past experience of God’s people is the ground for present trust.
Psalms 22:5 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
“I am a worm, and no man” is a forgotten “I am” statement that speaks of how little value the leaders of Israel and the Roman officials placed on Jesus of Nazareth. A worm is a creature of the ground, helpless, frail, and unwanted. Isaiah 52:14 predicted that Messiah would be terribly disfigured by his enemies and not even look human
What does He mean when He says, “I am a worm?” He has roared like a lion; now He says, “I am a worm.” It is because He has reached the lowest place. “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” (Isaiah 53:3).
The interesting thing is that the word used here for worm means the coccus worm, which was used by the Hebrews in dying all the curtains of the tabernacle scarlet red. When He said, “I am a worm,” He meant more than that He had reached the lowest level. It was He who had said, “…Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” (Isaiah 1:18). Only His blood, my friend, can rub out the dark deep spot in your life.
PRAY
Heavenly Father, we thank You for being such a loving God. We thank You, Lord Jesus, for sacrificing Your life for us.