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“I feel like spilled water. My courage to live is soft as wax, melted away inside me. My throat is dry as a shard of pottery and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.” (Translation from the Basis Bible. Read comparable translation in Psalm 22:14-15 NIV.)
Thank you David, thank you! Again and again I am thankful for David, who manages to show us we are not alone with such emotions, even physical realities. Right?
“I feel like spilled water.” Imagine that. You can’t put spilled water back in the bottle. You have to wipe it away.
Or: “Dry as a shard of pottery.” When firing a piece of pottery, the liquid is completely removed from it. It can’t get any drier! If your throat is that dry, you can no longer speak. As David writes here: “Your tongue sticks to the roof of your mouth.”
Yet David speaks precisely of wanting to use his voice! “I will declare your name to my people; in the assembly I will praise you.” (Psalm 22:22 NIV)
As I read this passage, I became aware of something that has been moving my heart again and again lately: In his distress David did not forget the reason for his existence on earth. He forgot neither his mission nor the heavenly possibilities to get him out of his current troubling situation!
I recently read a quote from A.W. Tozer: “The Christian is a man from heaven living temporarily on earth.”
If we live with a heavenly attitude, then we will use our earthly life to tell of God’s love at all times.
That was David’s heart’s desire in the midst of his weariness and need: “But you, Lord, do not be far from me. You are my strength; come quickly to help me.” (Psalm 22:19 NIV)
He wanted to use this one life to tell people about God! Wow! THIS is also the reason we exist! It is the desire of God’s heart. Do you want to make His desire YOUR desire today and use your voice?
People need to hear the truth that is in YOUR heart to silence the lie that is in their hearts.
You are a miracle!
Awesome I have one life indeed . The Christian is a heavenly creature living temporarily on earth. Amen
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Amen!!!
PRAISE GOD FOR ALL HIS BLESSINGS AND LESSONS!!!
Thank You for your AS ALWAYS Holy Spirit filled message Sister Deborah! ????????????????????????????????????????????☮️????????????
You have the wrong idea about Psalm 22. Psalm 22 has nothing to do with David, but everything to do with the crucifixion of our Lord Savior Jesus Christ where He takes away the sins of the world and pays the ransom of our sins so we could be reconciled to our Heavenly Father through His Atoning Sacrifice. This is the prophecy that David prophesied through the Holy Spirit about the coming Messiah and how we will be redeemed by the ransom price of His blood to set us free from the bondage of sin by believing by faith that Jesus is the Christ and Messiah that our Heavenly Father promised us. That’s what David was describing.