I was reading the Greatest Story Ever Told for an Advent project. Don't ask me to explain this book for Advent rather than Lent, but I couldn't explain half the things that I do or for that matter half the things that don't do. Anyway, I in the Greatest Story the reader gets to the Cruxifiction and he mentioned the "My God, my God, why has Thou abandon me" that Christ says at the end of his life. I have heard that countless time, but for some unknown reason, I do not recall hearing the fact that it is a reference to Psalm 22 and I suppose if I had read the Psalm in whole, I would have found it by myself. But I suppose like some people I have only read a line or two of the Psalms as they related to a particular service. Psalm 22 states much of what Christians believe is the Old Testament vision of the coming of Christ, and his suffering, death, and resurrection. It is pretty astounding stuff.
