Sunday Psalms;

Yet you 

are enthroned as the Holy One; 

you are 

the one Israel praises. 

In you 

our ancestors put their trust; 

they trusted 

and you 

delivered them. 

To you 

they cried out and were saved; 

in you 

they trusted

and were not 

put to shame.

Psalms 22:3-5 NIV

After the first two verses of despair, of looking inward, David looks up and back, looks up to our God, and looks back to see where God's story has intertwined with the nation, with his people. 

Yet you

You are

And you

To you

In you

This doesn't erase David's despair in vv1-2, but he is able to turn his heart and mind to our God at the same time. 

The things he is crying out about haven't changed, but he is choosing to look up, and to look back, and in doing that knows that he is the beloved of God. 

As are you

As am I

When we are in despair, David gives us this frame to complete for ourselves about God;

Yet you _____

You are _____

And you ______

To you ______

In you _____

They trusted and were not put to shame, whatever shame that was supposed to or expected to fall on them, didn't. Psalm 22 can also be read as a prophetic expression of Jesus' journey to the Cross, where our shame was absorbed by Him.

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