In Psalms, chapter twenty-two, verses eleven through seventeen, these verses describe the Lord’s feelings of helplessness while undergoing the brutality of the scourging and crucifixion.
“Be not far from me.” There is the petition for which He has been using such varied and powerful pleas. His great woe was that God had forsaken him, and His great prayer was that He would be near Him. A lively sense of the divine presence is a mighty stay to the heart in distress. “Trouble is near, and there is none to help.” There are two as though faith gave a double knock at mercy’s gate; that is a powerful prayer full of holy reasons and thoughtful arguments. The nearness of trouble is a weighty motive for divine help; this moves our heavenly Father’s heart and brings down His helping hand. It is His glory to be our very present help in trouble. Our Substitute had difficulty in His inmost heart, for He said, “The waters have come in, even unto my soul;” well might He cry, “Be not far from me.” The absence of all other helpers is another telling plea. In our Lord’s case, none either could or would help Him. He needed to tread the winepress alone, yet a sore aggravation to find that all His disciples had forsaken him and lover and friend were far from Him. There is an awfulness about absolute friendlessness that is crushing to the human mind, for man was not made to be alone and is like a dismembered limb when he has to endure heart loneliness.
Today, believers who have a deep relationship with God may experience loneliness sometimes in their salvation with Christ, especially during trials and testing of their faith. There is none to help because we have to stand alone.