Psalms 22:27

My Notes

What Does Psalms 22:27 Mean?

The psalmist envisions universal worship: all the ends of the world will remember and turn to the LORD. Every family of nations will worship before him. The scope is total — not some nations, but all.

"Remember and turn" suggests that the knowledge of God was once present and was forgotten. The turning is a return — nations coming back to a God they once knew but lost track of. The universal worship is a restoration, not an innovation.

"All the kindreds of the nations" echoes God's promise to Abraham that all families of the earth would be blessed (Genesis 12:3). The psalm connects Israel's worship to a global movement that includes every ethnic group.

This verse appears in Psalm 22 — the psalm that begins with "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" — Jesus' cry from the cross. The psalm moves from abandonment to universal worship. The suffering leads to global redemption.

Reflection Questions

• 1.What does it mean that nations will 'remember' God rather than discover him for the first time?
• 2.How does the movement of Psalm 22 — from abandonment to global worship — mirror the gospel?
• 3.Where do you see evidence of 'all nations' turning to God?
• 4.How does this vision of universal worship change your view of cross-cultural mission?

Devotional

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD. Every corner. Every nation. Every people group that has forgotten will remember. And they will turn.

This vision is breathtaking in its scope. Not a few converts. All the ends of the world. Not some kindreds. All the kindreds of the nations. The worship of God will become as universal as the creation itself.

Remember and turn. The nations are not encountering God for the first time. They are remembering — returning to something that was always there, buried under layers of forgetting. The turning is a homecoming.

This verse sits in Psalm 22 — the psalm Jesus quoted on the cross. The psalm that begins with 'why hast thou forsaken me' ends with all the nations worshipping. The trajectory from abandonment to global worship runs directly through the cross.

The suffering of the Messiah is what makes the worship of the nations possible. The cross was not a dead end. It was the doorway through which every kindred of every nation will walk to return to God.

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