Psalm 55

“Cast your burden on the LORD, and He will sustain you; He will never permit the righteous to be moved”~~Psalm 55:22 (ESV).

I wrote this poem somewhat differently than the other poems in this series. Rather than covering every line, I decided to use verse 22 as the lens to view the rest of the poem and Christ’s fulfillment of it

Psalm 55

Cast your

burdens,

your anxieties,

your sorrows,

your tears,

your unmet longings,

deepest fears,

before the throne of grace,

on the One Who

bore our griefs,

carried

our sorrows,

and bore our sins

in His own body

on the tree.

Cast your very soul on Him,

and He will

provide,

feed, and nourish

you with the

Bread of Life.

He will

make room,

give space

to grieve

at your hour of need

2am,

3am,

4am

those horribly dark hours

when there is no other refuge.

He will sustain you,

when death’s terrors fall on you,

and shelter you with His wings

from the raging storm and tempest.

He will give you His ear when

your heart is in anguish;

the way He heard Christ

in Gethsemane as His tears

turned to blood,

His prayer revealing the agony

of His soul.

He will sustain you

the way He sustained Christ

even as Judas

shattered three years

of breaking bread,

of companionship, of friendship

with a single kiss.

Not even the cross

the nails,

the crown of thorns,

the horrific scourging,

the bitter awful cup He drank

of wrath you and I deserve,

No, not even the grave

could move Him.

For God shall never permit

the righteous

to be moved, and

all those made righteous

by Christ’s blood,

who make the Rock of Ages their foundation,

will be steadfast,

rising from the grave just as He rose.

But deceitful ones

who betray Him

with oil-soft words drawn as swords,

those who refuse to

cast all their sins at the

foot of the cross

and deny Him

with a treacherous kiss,

will be cast down by God

headlong into

the pit of destruction

forever.

But I will cast myself

on You,

O Lord.