Our readings in this series are from the book, Revived! Here is a brief excerpt from page 70:
“Jesus suffered troubles more than any person, indeed, more than all persons combined. And yet, the writer of Hebrews tells us, He was able to concentrate through His troubles to the time of joy that lay just ahead: ‘…who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.’ Jesus embraced the agony and trouble of the cross according to all the wretched details outlined in Psalm 22.1-21. And He was able to do so because He did not allow His troubles to have the last word; the last word was what God promised in verses 21-31 of Psalm 22 – a coming Kingdom of glory and joy and lovingkindness, reaching to all the generations of the world.
“Jesus bore up under His troubles by looking to the promise of the Kingdom that was to come.
“And how vast and glorious is the vision of the coming Kingdom that rounds out Psalm 22!”
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