Psalm 22:9
9 But thou art he that took [giyach] me out of the womb: [beten]
thou didst make me hope [batach] when I was
upon my mother's ['em] breasts. [shad] KJV-Interlinear
9 Yet
Thou art He who didst bring me forth from the womb; Thou didst make me trust
when upon my mother's breasts. NASB
This is a reference to
the Lord, mentioned in the previous verse.
It is the Lord in whom we all place our trust. It was the Lord of whom
the crowd, even he priests, ridiculed.
Out of the womb is the
phrase for birth. It is a natural event in our minds, but it is God, or more
specifically the Lord, who is Jesus Christ, who breathes human life into the
infant child, once born.
The baby is tied to the
mother through the umbilical cord, but once that cord is cut, that life link
stops, and the infant needs a different life connection in order to continue in
life.
Biological life exists
within the womb, human life exists once out of the womb, and the link with the
mother is cut.
God, exhales life. Man inhales life at the point of birth.
Remember, we as humanity
can only perpetuate biological life. We
cannot create human life. That is the domain and prerogative and exclusive
right of God.
Mary did not create Jesus
Christ, God did.
And from a very young
age, namely from the point of birth, it is God who starts and maintains each
living person thereafter.
The word for hope here is
refuge or place of safety. And it is God
who provides a refuge for each one of us, and for Jesus, from the moment of our
birth through the rest of our life.
It was not the crowd that
mocked that sustains life. It was not the
priests that sustain life. It was not
the nation of Judah or Rome, or any other earthly domain. God and God alone keeps us safe, even at the
time when we know nothing about God or anything else for that matter.
The crowd that was
mocking Jesus on the cross, was opinionated, belligerent, and thoroughly stuck
in their stubborn ways. And yet God
protected even them, granting them the ability to mock, while He paid the way
for their salvation, as He made for them an opportunity for a phenomenal complete
and spiritual life, even as they rejected it and him.
