Create in Me a Clean Heart: The 40-Day Challenge (Psalms)Sample

Man Seeks God in Times of Trouble

Psalm 22:1-12

What a painful, bitter experience. Trouble that no one in the world wants to experience. Abandoned, despised, mocked. That cry and call for help while his heart melts like wax: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Could it be any harder?

And while the crowd mocks him, thinking that God has abandoned him, the memory of the times when God delivered his people restores his hope and faith in deliverance. From the moment he trusted Him at his mother’s breast, he has relied on Him.

How can the trouble described by the psalmist help and comfort us? The psalm gives us such assurance that we are NOT ALONE in trouble! With us is Jesus Christ who, as a man, endured the kind of suffering, pain and trouble that we cannot even imagine. That’s why he understands all our suffering and pain. That is why He delivers us from every trouble when we pour out the cry of our heart before Him. Because of Him, we can sing praises to God who hears us! That is why we can bear witness to future generations about the righteous God who saves. Let’s call on Him in our trouble, let’s seek Him with all our hearts! Then joy and happiness will flood our lives.