Forsaken
“My God, My God, why have You forsaken
Me?” Mt. 27:46
This fourth word of Jesus, found in Matthew 27:46, was
expressed in the ninth hour. Jesus was
not speaking to the thieves, nor the crowd.
In this ninth hour He was directing His cry to His Father. It was an intimate conversation that the
world heard.
Jesus was the Son crying out to His Father, for God had
turned His back from His only begotten Son.
Jesus felt abandoned, Jesus was abandoned – so I would not have to
be. This was the hour that the One who
knew no sin became sin for us. This was
the hour that the Righteous One was forsaken as He took upon Himself ALL OUR
SIN. God turned away during this time,
as sin was heaped upon Jesus, because God cannot be where sin exists. This was a word of agony that Jesus spoke.
God did not answer His Son during this time, for Jesus was
fulfilling His word, that the wages of sin is death. The wages were being applied to Christ – to
His physical body – during that time of suffering. I began to realize that suffering was not
quickly over – it was slow. It was –
SUFFICIENT – sufficient for me, for us. I understood Jesus was, and is, my
Sin-Bearer. All my sin He was dying for,
so that I could live. He Himself bore
our sins in His body on the cross that we might die to sins and live for
righteousness. In that hour Jesus was setting me forever free. Forever free.
He was, and is, a sufficient Sin-Bearer.
I once was a sheep who had gone astray, but found myself drawn, and returning
to the Shepherd and Overseer of my soul.
In that time of darkness, that time where there was no
answer from God, Jesus chose to trust His Father. He trusted, though His rescue did not come on
the cross. He trusted, though the
silence was deafening. Jesus was still,
knowing God was God. On the cross, the
Son’s rescue did not come. Rather, His
death became my rescue. His loss became
our gain. He was showing us the full
extent of His love, as He loved us until the end.
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