Psalm 22:29
29 All they that be fat [dashen] upon earth ['erets] shall
eat ['akal] and worship: [shachah] all they that go down [yarad] to the dust [`aphar] shall bow [kara`] before [paniym] him: and
none can keep alive [chayah] his own soul. [nephesh] KJV-Interlinear
29 All
the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship, All those who go down to the
dust will bow before Him, Even he who cannot keep his soul alive. NASB
Jesus Christ is hanging
on the cross when these words are spoken or thought by Him. Nearly everyone is
making fun of Him. All are challenging Him
to bring Himself down, to save Himself, to jump off and destroy their enemies,
the Romans as they see it.
Mocking, spitting, trying
to intimidate, trying to get Jesus to commit a sin by being resentful, by getting
angry over their comments and attitudes and such.
And yet Jesus did not
commit a sin but instead took their sins upon Himself and paid the price, so
that all people, even those who were making fun of him, could have the
opportunity of being saved from the Lake of Fire for all of eternity.
While now all were
looking at Jesus with disgust and repugnance and revulsion, there will come a
time when all people, without exception, will look to Christ in awe and worship
Him with increasing gratitude and humility.
All that are fat, is the
expression of prosperity, or wealth, or people that have had success throughout
or during their life.
All that go down to the
dust, is the expression of those who have had a more difficult life, those who
are in poverty, those who are taken advantage of, those who have been the target
of prejudice, those who work and work and never get ahead.
These two categories of
people, account for everyone who has or ever will live.
And finally, those who
cannot keep alive their own soul. This
expression has a dual purpose. There are
those in the world who are old or injured or sick, and death is their next
event of which they cannot avoid. But
also, this applies to every human being throughout history.
No one can avoid
death. No one has the power to turn life
on or to turn life off. Power over the
soul is not something that man has or ever will have. God alone gives life. God alone takes life away.
Even at the moment of
birth, the life of the fetus hangs in the balance of being born alive or of
being still born never having known life.
God alone breathes in the spark of life, ‘neshamah.’ God exhales life and man inhales life.
God decides life, not
man.
Man who mocks Jesus, man
who disregards Jesus, man who is indifferent toward his greater aspect of life,
his spiritual life, has phenomenal arrogance in his attitude. Man cannot control his own life and yet he
ridicules God who gives man everything that he has or ever will have.
All people have things.
Some have more, most have less. All
receive their possessions and life from God.
No one is self-made. All are what
they are because of Gods grace.
To presume that you are
elite or somehow more than you are, is pure arrogance.
To complain because you do
not have more, or that you should deserve more, is pure arrogance.
God deals with you in
accordance with exactly what you need in life.
God will not change. You must
change.
