#282 The Test of the Dream Psalm 105.19 Part 3
The other day I was feeling physically sick and emotionally upset and irritated at Everything. The words of Psalm 22 came to my mind. I experienced great power of spiritual deliverance from my pained state of mind by praying the words that Jesus prayed from the cross: “But You are holy.”
Psalm 22 prophetically describes the anguish of the cross. Jesus uttered the first verse of this Psalm. “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34 He also spoke a form of the last words of the Psalm in his last moments of life on earth. “…that he has performed it” Psalm 22:31b. “It is finished”. John 19:30 Until his resurrection these words of God and the God given Dream and Vision of blessing and reconciliation tested him.
O my God, I cry by day, but Thou dost not answer; and by night, but I have no rest.
Yet Thou art holy,
O Thou who art enthroned upon the praises of Israel. Psalm 22:1-3
He held onto the Vision of his Holy God in the midst of unimaginable pain. He kept the dominion of God in his heart through praise, remembering the past deliverance of God in the history of Israel. Psalm 22:4-5
Things happen that we don’t understand, Yet You are holy.
Things happen that we don’t like, Yet You are holy.
Things happen that are brutal and cruel, Yet you are holy.
Whatever happens, there is a higher purpose for the highest good and healing of all creation.
Who He Is and what He stands for sets Him apart from every other being, and above every conceivable challenge as the first cause of love and justice and the Author of Deliverance.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9, 12-13
When we cannot sense His deliverance in the present we can praise Him for His deliverance in the past.
When we cannot sense His deliverance in the present we can praise Him for His deliverance in the lives of others.
God is holy even in the midst of confusion and pain.
Whatever our experience we can claim the most basic reality of spiritual life: “But You are holy.”
The other day I was feeling physically sick and emotionally upset and irritated at Everything. The words of Psalm 22 came to my mind. I experienced great power of spiritual deliverance from my pained state of mind by praying the words that Jesus prayed from the cross: “But You are holy.”
Psalm 22 prophetically describes the anguish of the cross. Jesus uttered the first verse of this Psalm. “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34 He also spoke a form of the last words of the Psalm in his last moments of life on earth. “…that he has performed it” Psalm 22:31b. “It is finished”. John 19:30 Until his resurrection these words of God and the God given Dream and Vision of blessing and reconciliation tested him.
O my God, I cry by day, but Thou dost not answer; and by night, but I have no rest.
Yet Thou art holy,
O Thou who art enthroned upon the praises of Israel. Psalm 22:1-3
He held onto the Vision of his Holy God in the midst of unimaginable pain. He kept the dominion of God in his heart through praise, remembering the past deliverance of God in the history of Israel. Psalm 22:4-5
Things happen that we don’t understand, Yet You are holy.
Things happen that we don’t like, Yet You are holy.
Things happen that are brutal and cruel, Yet you are holy.
Whatever happens, there is a higher purpose for the highest good and healing of all creation.
Who He Is and what He stands for sets Him apart from every other being, and above every conceivable challenge as the first cause of love and justice and the Author of Deliverance.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9, 12-13
When we cannot sense His deliverance in the present we can praise Him for His deliverance in the past.
When we cannot sense His deliverance in the present we can praise Him for His deliverance in the lives of others.
God is holy even in the midst of confusion and pain.
Whatever our experience we can claim the most basic reality of spiritual life: “But You are holy.”
