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Sometime after Jesus was nailed to the cross a supernatural darkness fell over Palestine, shrouding the events at Golgotha, this darkness lasting from the sixth through ninth hours.
It is near the end of this period, as we are deep in the darkness that covers Calvary.
Suddenly Jesus cries out these words of anguish.
“Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?”
which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Death is near, Jesus is feeling the pain and loneliness that sin causes.
But the sin in this case is not his, it is ours.
Jesus’ words draw on , the same words that King David had used a thousand years earlier, a Psalm about despair that parallels Jesus’ suffering.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
Jesus knew the scriptures.
Was he thinking through the rest of ?
Yet you are he who took me from the womb;
you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.
On you was I cast from my birth,
and from my mother’s womb you have been my God.
Be not far from me, for trouble is near,
and there is none to help.
How often do we find ourselves with similar thoughts on our mind, find ourselves mouthing those same words?
But There is hope; the Psalm continues!
From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him.
Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation; they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.
Is this cry, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” an expression of anguish at his separation from God because he was bearing sin, bearing my sin, bearing your sin?
Is he feeling our loneliness, our separation, our pain and anguish?
The horror of the cross was not mere physical torment, it was Christ’s temporary loss of fellowship with His Father.
He who had known no sin became sin for us (),
and in that moment his fellowship with a holy God was broken, leaving him suffocating in our guilt.
Charles Spurgeon describes how far Christ humbled himself in coming to give himself for us, he says,
"The difference between the richest and the poorest man is just nothing compared with the difference between Christ in the glory of His Godhead and Christ in His humiliation.
The stoop was altogether immeasurable.
You cannot describe His riches, and you cannot describe His poverty.
You have never had any idea of how high He was as God; and you can never imagine how low He stooped when He cried, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?”
He is able to sympathize with us in our times of trouble and sorrow.
He has felt the things that we go through.
The death of a friend, the denial of a disciple--one who should have been trustworthy, the kiss of an enemy, He was poor and homeless.
And now at the time of his impending death, immeasurable loneliness.
In a word picture provided by J. M. Boice, we see how far Jesus went for us in his suffering.
He asks, Did anyone ever suffer as much as Jesus did?
Perhaps in a physical sense it is possible that some persons could have, though there are few forms of suffering as great as that endured in crucifixion.
But in a total sense, in a sense that involves mental and spiritual anguish as well as physical suffering, no one can come close.
He who knew no sin was made sin for you, for me.
He who had never experienced so much as one second of broken fellowship between himself and the Father was separated from him so that he called out in great agony of soul, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
No other suffering was ever as great as his.
Yet he endured all this, because his love for us is immeasurable!
Yes, there is hope, He is no longer forsaken, and we experience this hope in that he is raised from the dead three days later.
HE LIVES!
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