..."My God, My God why have your forsaken Me?" Jesus cried out in a loud voice." Jesus had been through a grueling trial, innocent of all charges. He then had been convicted of those charges, beaten and scourged, made to drag his own cross to the place where he was to be crucified, until he couldn't go any father with it and another man finished it for him. He was made a spectacle in front of everyone watching. And now dying on the cross.....
"My God, My God Why have you forsaken Me?"
He was made to cry out to his Father in heaven, to ask such a question? And didn't even get an answer from him. Didn't he deserve that much? He hadn't wanted to go to the cross. But he knew why he had to. He had taken the punishment for the sins of the world. Past, present and future. Why God?
Why?
Isn't that sometimes the same kind of prayer that we cry to God. I know of friends that are currently going through some very hard things. Despite that as much as they know how, are doing everything they can to do all the things God wants them to, and yet nothing seems to change for them. And I know that they in the dark of night and cry out to God. I have been there at times, myself.
Why God?
Why God? Why aren't you keeping your promises to me? Have you forgotten me? Why God?
Jesus knew why he had been sent by his Father to do what he was there to do. It was no surprise to him that the Roman government and his own people would bring this terrifying situation upon him. But he also knew that it was the only way that the sins of the world could be forgiven. It has been the plan of his Father from the beginning of time, and up to that very moment.
Jesus, was experiencing something that every human being have or will face when their final hour is up on this earth.
Being forsaken by God, the God that created them.
That is, for those that did not bother to accept him during their life. For those that chose not to believe him. For those that perhaps don't believe in him other then that he is just some fairy tale made up by people trying to scare them into hell.
Jesus did it for us so that we would not have to face the separation and judgement of God. He paid our price because we can't. Thinking back onto what he had gone through, how did he ever manage being able to cry out like he did? It took a greater love for all humanity then what we can ever give.
And so when we are tempted to cry out to God, asking him our own "Why, God?" we should remember that even Jesus asked his own Father that same kind of question. And God didn't give him an answer because he already knew it. Just like we already know why God doesn't always answer our own prayers to him. Because he has the answers for us. He knows what is best for us. He has to whole picture.
We don't always know what God is doing by letting us go through the things we are, as Jesus did. But we have enough to know he is working our situations out for our good, and he has given us the tools in his word with which to act upon while going through those hard times. The hymn that has the words "My hope is built on nothing less, then Jesus blood and righteousness, I dare not trust the sweetest frame but wholly trust in Jesus Name." is where our hope is. No matter what we have gone or are going through. Even in the darkest hours, as when Jesus cried out:
"My God, My God why have thou forsaken Me?
Thanks for coming by today Friends. Here is praying for a wonderfully blessed new week!
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