Reader’s Guide: “The Word for Today” Tuesday, January 21, 2014 Read Psalm 69:13-18 The psalmist cries out to God to deliver him in due time. The expectation of the psalmist is that God will act. That is one of the beautiful things about most psalms of lament – the expectation of the lamenter that God will hear and that God will act. As we listen to this part of the psalm we are closer to Mark’s understanding of Jesus as the suffering, crucified Messiah than we are to John’s understanding. Mark will use another psalm directly on the lips of Jesus to express Jesus cry to God, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” But this psalm might also have been on the lips of Jesus. We can see how the early Christians read these psalms and saw Jesus in them.