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Sep 2023
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Psalm 22 - Why Have You Forsaken Me?

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David assumes God has forsaken him. He does not ask God if he has forsaken him. He asks why, assuming God already has. Yet in light of the promises made to David in Scripture, David ought to have known that God would never have finally forsaken him.


Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.

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