Psalm 22. Keep praying saints: But I am a worm and not a man.

Rev. Bryan Stecker, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church & School in Waconia MN, joins Rev. Brady Finnern to study and pray Psalm 22.

We hear the prayer of David and we see Christ on the cross. The connections to Christ are everywhere: mocking from others (v.7), bones are out of joint (v.16), piercing of my hands and feet (v.17), my tongue sticks to my jaws (v.15), and dividing the garments (v.18). The LORD worked through David to prove that this suffering Jesus was the King of Jews whose love goes beyond any love in this broken world. “Tell me, ye who hear Him groaning ; was there ever grief like His? Friends through fear His cause disowning, foes insulting His distress; Many hands were raised to wound Him, None would intervene to save; But the deepest stroke that pierced Him was the stroke that justice gave" (Lutheran Service Book 451, "Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted").