Start the first line of Amazing Grace in a room full of people and they will finish it without being asked. The crowd at the cross knew Psalm 22 the same way, so what did they miss when Jesus sang its opening line?

In this second look at the fourth saying, we return to Psalm 22, a lament that opens in abandonment and closes with the words, he has done it. Jesus did not hear an audible voice in the darkness. He overheard God in words already written down.

This message invites you to let hard times become Bible times. When the power goes out you light a candle, and Scripture is the light that never went off. Take your raw questions to heaven the way David and Jesus did, because a cry of distress is not a cry of distrust, and God’s silence is not his absence.