04/12/2026 – “My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.” Psalm 22:14 / “…Let us not give way to despair, since through this dark room the Master has passed before us…” / Morning devotion
“Our blessed Lord experienced a terrible sinking and melting of soul. “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear?” Deep depression of spirit is the most grievous of all trials; all besides is as nothing. Well might the suffering Saviour cry to his God, “Be not far from me,” for above all other seasons a man needs his God when his heart is melted within him because of heaviness. Believer, come near the cross this morning, and humbly adore the King of glory as having once been brought far lower, in mental distress and inward anguish, than any one among us; and mark his fitness to become a faithful High Priest, who can be touched with a feeling of our infirmities. Especially let those of us whose sadness springs directly from the withdrawal of a present sense of our Father’s love, enter into near and intimate communion with Jesus. Let us not give way to despair, since through this dark room the Master has passed before us. Our souls may sometimes long and faint, and thirst even to anguish, to behold the light of the Lord’s countenance: at such times let us stay ourselves with the sweet fact of the sympathy of our great High Priest. Our drops of sorrow may well be forgotten in the ocean of his griefs; but how high ought our love to rise! Come in, O strong and deep love of Jesus, like the sea at the flood in spring tides, cover all my powers, drown all my sins, wash out all my cares, lift up my earth-bound soul, and float it right up to my Lord’s feet, and there let me lie, a poor broken shell, washed up by his love, having no virtue or value; and only venturing to whisper to him that if he will put his ear to me, he will hear within my heart faint echoes of the vast waves of his own love which have brought me where it is my delight to lie, even at his feet forever.”
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Commentary: I have noted this before: “I don’t have nearly enough faith to be anything but a Christian!” Psalm 22 – A Davidic psalm, 1000 years before Jesus’ death and resurrection from the cross. If this isn’t a Roman crucifixion scene, what is it? Was David on a LSD trip? Check out the commentary on Psalm 22 in the Apologetcs Study Bible:
“This was David’s prayer for deliverance from his enemies who surrounded him to put him to death, but it was also indirectly prophetic of the prayer of Jesus from the cross. While the words of David may be highly figurative for his experience, they became historically precise in the suffering of the Savior. David’s prayer to be delivered from death (22:20) was eventually answered, prompting him to praise God in the assembly (vv 22,25). Jesus’ prayer, using the words of this psalm , was answered in the resurrection, for Hebrews 2:12 quotes the Davidic words of praise in verse 22 as the word of the risen Lord.” Whoa!!!
“saying: “I will proclaim Your name to My brothers; I will sing hymns to You in the congregation” ” Hebrews 2:12
I submit: The proper interpretation comes only through the power of our indwelling Holy Spirit. Without it, we could read through the Bible countless times and still be left totally clueless to its amazing and incomprehensible significance. So, prayer with Bible Study!; they go together…
Secondary note: It is not about the messenger, but Charles Haddon Spurgeon had quite the God given gift for sublime eloquence!