The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page May 29 Special Devotional Scripture:  “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” —Psalm 22:1 "...But I am a worm—the Hebrew word  tôlāʿ, the crimson worm—and not a man." —Psalm 22:6 Tôlāʿ  The Crimson Worm   A Picture of Christ I heard something today that stopped me in my tracks. I wasn’t looking for it. I wasn’t studying it. It simply found me — a video of a woman explaining something I had never heard in all my years of walking with the Lord. She said that when Jesus cried out on the Cross, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” He was quoting Psalm 22 — the Messianic psalm that describes crucifixion long before crucifixion existed. And then she focused on verse 6: “But I am a worm…” The Hebrew word there is not a regular worm. It is tôlāʿ — the crimson worm . And what this little creature does is almost unbelievable. The Crimson Worm’s Lif...