David gave an amazingly accurate description of the suffering the Messiah would endure hundreds of years later. David was obviously enduring some great trial, but through his suffering he, like the Messiah to come, gained victory. Jesus, the Messiah, quote this verse while hanging on the cross (22:1); carrying our burden of sin (Matthew 27:46). It was not a cry of doubt, but an urgent appeal to God.
When others despise us and heap scorn upon us, they treat us as less than human. After much degradation, we, like David, could begin to feel like worms. When we feel the sting of rejection, we must keep in mind the hope and victory that God promises us.
God's loving concern does not being on the day we are born and conclude on the day we die. It reaches back to those days before we were born, and reaches ahead along the unending path of eternity. Our only sure help comes from a God whose concern for us reaches beyond our earthly existence. When faced with such love, how could anyone reject it?
"For it reaches to the highest mountain, and it flows to the lowest valley, the blood that give us strength from day to day, it will never lose its power!"
Come and join me in an evening prayer.
Elder Barbara