Psalms 22:10 (KJV)
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
That this Psalm contains prophecies of Christ is unmistakable, not only in the vivid depictions of the cross found in some verses herein, but also by the confirmation of New Testament Scripture.
Prophecy almost always has both a near and distant fulfillment. The near has to do with some person or event taking place at the time, while the distant has to do, oftentimes, with things we haven’t seen fulfilled even yet. The near serves as an earnest that the distant will, in God’s time, be fulfilled.
Having said that, I’d rather be cautious about trying to draw too much from the parts of this Psalm that don’t as readily point to Jesus Christ. They would surely have been in the heart and mind of David as he penned these words, but they might be a touch more difficult for us to see in exact correlation to our Saviour.
So, with some reluctance, but a good bit of interest, I offer this quote from Albert Barnes on this text:
“This, too, may have passed through the mind of the Redeemer on the cross. In those sad and desolate moments he may have recalled the scenes of his early life - the events which had occurred in regard to him in his early years; the poverty of his mother, the manger, the persecution by Herod, the flight into Egypt, the return, the safety which he then enjoyed from persecution in a distant part of the land of Palestine, in the obscure and unknown village of Nazareth.”
They say a dying man will often see his life “pass before his eyes” in those final moments. Imagine if this same thing occurred in Christ. Imagine Him on the cross, rehearsing in His mind the interactions between Himself and His Father, leading to His incarnation, His birth of a virgin mother, His deliverance from Herod, and the succeeding events—all determined before the foundation of the earth and leading to the very moment He took upon Himself the sins of the whole world.
Imagine that infinite mind meditating, in those moments of excruciating pain, not only upon Himself and the Father, perhaps not only upon the task He was completing, but upon the individuals for whom He had done it.
Imagine—when He was on the cross, you were on His mind.
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When He Was on the Cross, You Were on His Mind
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