Psalm 22:1-8, 14-31, Isaiah 42:1-4Luke 24:1-9 and Revelation 7:13-17

It always amazes me to think that God can change the past. I know, of course, God can change the future, but the past?

“My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?” the psalmist shouts, the very words Jesus cries from the cross in the gospel according to Mark. And in crying them, Jesus changes forever, and in fact adds to, our understanding of the psalm.

Think about it. “O my God, I cry by day, but thou dost not answer,” the psalmist says.

And those who surround him and mock him wag their heads and say, “He committed his cause to the Lord; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him.”

Sometimes it seems that evil has won. Sometimes it seems that no matter how much faith we have, no matter how hard we try…