Psalms 22:1 NIV [1] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?

Psalms 22:1, 8, 16-18, 31 NIV

[1] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?

[8] “He trusts in the Lord,” they say, “let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”

[16] Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce my hands and my feet.

[17] All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me.

[18] They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.

Do these words sound familiar? Here David calls on God to save him and he uses words we know as the pained cries of someone we love, Jesus.
Some like to say that Jesus was quoting the scriptures when He called to God that day, but I do not feel that is accurate. Rather those who say David prophesied about how Jesus (his descendant several generations removed) would die. The word “my God why have you forsaken me!” Are one thing, but the dividing of Jesus’s garment and casting lots for it, the piercing of His hands and feet, He did not quote this, it truly happened. Showing the potential accuracy of a prophecy being made.
However, these words are not our sole focus today. I want us also to consider how psalm 22 ends.

[31] They will proclaim his righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn: He has done it!

The suffering Jesus went through was beyond horrible. Yet even the prophecy of it shows how the battle ends. “He has done it!!”

Jesus won the war that day and He stands as our savior. We are free because of Him!

Take away:

Death was not the end. Not for Jesus. He went to the cross knowing how it would all turn out.
It is good also to remember that, in His pain He cried to God, asking why He had been forsaken even though He knew and understood it. So when you are suffering and you cry out to God asking why He has left you abandoned, even though you know He is there with you, remember that you don’t have to he ashamed about that, because Jesus understands better than anyone. Unlike David, God truly did turn away from His son because He could not look at the sin that Jesus bore for us. Unlike David, Jesus died. Unlike anyone, Jesus rose three days later and saved us from our sins.