Deep Waters
“Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul…I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow Me” (Psalm 69:1-2).
What an agonizing cry of desperation! David, who penned these words, was feeling this pressure from God and so cried out for help. Little did he realize that in type, he was speaking and feeling what our Lord Jesus experienced in connection with Calvary. The awfulness of God’s wrath against sin was so terrible that Jesus felt as if He were drowning in a turbulent ocean.
Jonah’s prayer from the belly of the great fish included these sentiments: “The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head” (Jonah 2:5). He, too, is a type of the Lord going under the waters of God’s judgment in those three hour of darkness when He bore, “our sins in His own body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24).
We will never know the full extent of what Jesus suffered, but we can always thank Him for bearing it for us.
