This is the fourth word of our Lord Jesus Christ among His seven lasts words on the Cross of Calvary.
Previously, our Lord Jesus Christ has used the term “Father”, now it is “My God, my God”. Why a sudden change from “Father” to “My God, my God” which is twice repeated?
Is our Lord Jesus Christ blaming God for “abandoning” Him in the greatest of His difficulties? How often we put the blame on God, every time that we do not like what life is showing to us?
How many times are we blaming God for all the frustration, rejection, financial pressure, broken hopes and dreams, false promises, sickness, death, and almost everything that is going wrong in our life?
Our Lord Jesus Christ is not blaming God but rather it is a natural human expression coming from the very Humanity that is within our Lord Jesus Christ. This only shows the Human Nature of our Lord Jesus Christ in contrast with His Divine Nature.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is never blaming God for He always do the will of the Father as he taught in the “Lord’s Prayer” with the phrase “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
Is our Lord Jesus Christ not familiar with the passages in Psalm 23 which says “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadows of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me?”
If God is always with our Lord Jesus Christ every minute, every second of the day then why did He uttered the word, “why have you forsaken me?” Our Lord Jesus Christ knows for a fact and in advance that He needs to undergo His Passion and Death.
In fact, our Lord Jesus Christ prays so hard at the Garden in Gethsemane so much so that His sweat turns into blood because of His mental and emotional agony at that time.
God Never Forsaken Us
It seems for us human beings that God does not exist and He is not there when we needed Him most. But that is far from the truth.
I remember the song “Footprint in the sands” where a person saw only one footprint in the sand and not two if God or the Lord is really walking with us human being in our journey in this life.
And the Lord says that the reason why there’s only one footprint in the sands “is that was the time that I carry you.”
Our Lord Jesus Christ said during His many teachings and preaching, “Come to me all of you who are tired and who are heavily laden, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Come to me, and I will give you rest.”
It is seem ironic that the Great Rabbi who preached those words about rest will complain to the Heavenly Father that He has abandoned the Son.
How about us do we sometimes feel that God has forsaken us? Amen.
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Fortunate are you, when people insult you and persecute you and speak all kinds of evil against you because you are my followers.-Matthew 5:11
We want to know who Jesus is, but he asks us what our inner dispositions are because we will gain nothing through finding him unless we are disposed to submit ourselves to him.