The God-forsaken cry of Psalm 22:1 is done in the context of faith and trust in the Lord. That is what Psalm 22:3–5 is all about! Notice how it starts with the word yet (see also Psalm 22:9, Psalm 22:19). This is a confession of trust! Even though God has forsaken him, his confidence remains. His trust in the Lord is as real as the distance he feels from the Lord. He roots his confidence in the character and faithfulness of God. God is the Holy One enthroned on high. He is the one who delivered his people in the past. They were not disappointed and neither then will David be. It is the same confidence that we can have too. We can cry out to God asking why he has forsaken us, yet we must do so with a firm confidence and trust in the Lord and what he has done for us in Christ. Christ was forsaken by God on the cross in a way that, by God’s grace, we will never have to experience. He called out with a loud voice, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? that we might be accepted by God and nevermore be forsaken by him!¹ Through Christ’s suffering we can rest assured that even if we feel at times that God has forsaken us, we also rest in the assurance that in Christ, God will never forsake us by pouring out his wrath upon us for our sin. Paul affirms this in 2 Corinthians 4:9. During his ministry he was persecuted, but not forsaken.