Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In today's episode, we're going to listen to the next three episodes of Paul's brand-new Bible study in the Psalms.

In this first segment, Paul dives into Psalm 22,

which examines Jesus, the forsaken one.

Here's Paul.

I want to read Psalm 22,

because I think that in this fallen world,

this Psalm really does speak into some of the hardest moments

of the human experience.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Why are you so far from saving me from the words of my groaning?

Oh my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by people.

All who see me mock me, they make mouths at me, they wag their heads.

What a capturing of the hardest moments of the human experience.

I would title Psalm 22, forsaken. There are times when all of us go through

the dark, wintry night of the soul. There are moments when you do feel like you have been

forsaken by God. There are times when God seems

distant, uninvolved, silent. It's like your cries go nowhere, your prayers go nowhere. And in these moments, all you can do is grown. Is he

ever going to answer? The Psalm says, I feel like I'm falling apart. Psalm 22 is a validation of that

struggle. God doesn't always seem near. You don't always understand what he's doing. Sometimes life

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