Psalm 69:14-15

Psalm 69:14-15

Rescue me

This Psalm began with a victim up to His neck in waters. Could there be anything more terrifying than being trapped in a cell or room where the waters are rising and have reached your neck, and you know that the evil flood is making its inexorable ascent to the point where your mouth and nose will be covered too? Death by drowning beckons. Well, there is a comparative terror, and that is to be gripped by the suction power of a bottomless bog or quicksand, where your weight is slowly pushing you down into the abyss. Scenes like this can give us nightmares and we do not dare to think of the poor wretches who have had their lives ended in such ways.

Yeshua cried out to God because His experience at the cross felt no different. He was being sucked down into the mire of death, His physical strength being gradually drawn out of Him by the clinging tentacles of hellish darkness. At the same time, He felt the hatred of His enemies as they gloated over His anguish and could not wait to see Him succumb to the overwhelming waters of darkness. We are allowed here, to understand a little of what our Saviour experienced as He reached His lowest ebb and cried out to God, “Do not let the floodwaters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.” The pit was the darkness of Sheol and the horror of eternal death, the fate of those who die in sin and cut off from God. It is sobering to think that Yeshua went down to this place on our behalf, instead of us, so that our names might be erased from its list of future residents! All we can say is, “Thank You Lord!”

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