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“Thy wrath lieth hard upon Me, and Thou hast afflicted Me from My youth up” (Psalm 88:7).
In the gospels, we get the record of the sufferings of the Lord Jesus; in the Psalms we get His feelings during those awful sufferings. His sufferings from the hands of man were terrible, but His sufferings from the hands of God were infinitely worse. Here in our verse today the psalmist is referring to His sufferings at the hands of God.
Of course, it is not the Lord Jesus speaking directly here, for the psalms were written long before He came into this world. But sometimes the Spirit of God led those who wrote the Old Testament to write far beyond their own experiences, to speak of the Lord Jesus. In this way we know something of the feelings of the Lord Jesus when He suffered. David was not afflicted from his youth up, but the Lord Jesus was. David never felt the wrath of God the way the Lord Jesus did. Those old inspired writers realized this, and when they asked the Lord what it meant, they were told that they were writing for a people later on. That means you and me.
When we think of all that the Lord Jesus did for us, how it should make us thank and praise Him for what He endured!
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