When we arrived at our home from Sunday service today, this whitetail dear was waiting in our lawn.

It reminded me of the superscription over Psalm 22, a clear and detailed messianic psalm.

If you are interested, you can read my comments on this psalm on pages 71-77 in the first volume of my commentary on Psalms, titled “The Messiah in the Psalms: Discovering Christ in Unexpected Places.” Why is the superscription important? The Hebrew words translate as “Deer of the Dawn.”

As Kidner points out, this is a clue to the resurrection: “On the help at daybreak.”

The answer to Jesus’ prayer was not to be spared from the crucifixion, it was to to be raised from the dead.

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