Ps 22:1
(ESV)
My God,
my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are
you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
NOTE: These were
Jesus' words as he hung on the cross, when he felt the pain of a whole world of
sins, and where for the first time in eternity, the father turned his face from
the son. I like Spurgeon's comment on this verse. Many of us will experience the
sense of God's turning his back on us, at least the feeling of it. But the
reality of our deep and dark experience is that God never forsakes us. He never
turns his back on his children. And so, as dark as our experience might be, it
can never compare to what Jesus endured upon the cross for us. The depth of his
despair and the actual, real separation from the heavenly Father is a blackness
we can never imagine. And he did it because of his great love for us, the depth
of which we will never understand.
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