Psalms 69:26 KJV
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Though we cannot attach every verse in this Psalm to our Saviour (vs 5, for example) it is a Messianic Psalm, meaning it is prophetic of the Lord; being both referred to and quoted in the New Testament by and about Jesus. That being the case there are two verses that especially seemed significant today;
First is verse twenty and the brokenness of the heart of the Saviour over reproach.
How deeply the mocking and cursing of those before and at the cross cut into the heart of the Lord, much deeper than the spear that eventually pierced it.
Second is verse twenty six which has a doctrinal lesson and a personal application.
The doctrine is that, though men put Christ on the Cross it was God who had smitten Him. And though men mocked and reviled and spoke to His grief, it was God who had wounded Him. God ordained and commissioned the sacrifice of Christ on our behalf. Wicked men carried out the deed but God offered the life that was taken for the washing away of sin.
The application would have to with the cruelty of and displeasure of God in man's feeding frenzy on the afflicted.
Man tends to hover around the wounded one like a culture waiting for the kill. When a soul is wounded and afflicted our response ought to be to minister to them and bind up their wounds. Too often instead we gnashing on them with our teeth and tear their wounds that much the more.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Though we cannot attach every verse in this Psalm to our Saviour (vs 5, for example) it is a Messianic Psalm, meaning it is prophetic of the Lord; being both referred to and quoted in the New Testament by and about Jesus. That being the case there are two verses that especially seemed significant today;
First is verse twenty and the brokenness of the heart of the Saviour over reproach.
How deeply the mocking and cursing of those before and at the cross cut into the heart of the Lord, much deeper than the spear that eventually pierced it.
Second is verse twenty six which has a doctrinal lesson and a personal application.
The doctrine is that, though men put Christ on the Cross it was God who had smitten Him. And though men mocked and reviled and spoke to His grief, it was God who had wounded Him. God ordained and commissioned the sacrifice of Christ on our behalf. Wicked men carried out the deed but God offered the life that was taken for the washing away of sin.
The application would have to with the cruelty of and displeasure of God in man's feeding frenzy on the afflicted.
Man tends to hover around the wounded one like a culture waiting for the kill. When a soul is wounded and afflicted our response ought to be to minister to them and bind up their wounds. Too often instead we gnashing on them with our teeth and tear their wounds that much the more.
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