The Psalmist's Sorrow for Calvary's Slain Messiah

The sorrow of the Savior in the death that He died is well foretold by Old Testament prophets. One cannot fail to recall the words of Isaiah, when he said of Christ, that He is a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief!

In Psalm 89, there is a remarkable passage foretelling the sorrow and destruction and humiliation of the Lord's Annointed Messiah.

The Psalmist begins by exulting in the mighty power and mercy of God in His promises to David of a kingdom and a seed. The Psalmist describes the mighty power of God and proclaims the Saints' rejoicing in their God.

But after describing the eternal kingdom of Messiah, the Psalmist descends into a dark and tragic depiction of Christ's death at Calvary. It is as if the Holy Ghost has revealed the humiliation of Christ to the Psalmist, but not the resolution of Christ's resurrection and exaltation.

Thus, the Psalmist's words could well have been taken up by the disciples as they viewed their Lord Jesus hanging in agony and shame upon the cross!

All the hope of the kingdom, all the promises of salvation and everlasting life from the lips of the Savior, seemed at that moment to be dashed in pieces!

How quickly had the Savior gone from triumphant entry to Jerusalem to arrest, beating, judgment, humiliation, and horrible death by execution at Calvary! How could God's people reconcile this tragic turn of events with the promises of old?

God's people did not remember or would not believe the promise of Messiah's exaltation only after His humiliation and death for His people.

So that while they knew all was lost and the Savior was destroyed, He was winning the eternal salvation and happiness of the Saints!