G Friday – April 19, 2019 – Psalm 22:1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from
saving me, from the words of my groaning?
These words
were spoken by Jesus from the cross… The psalm expressed profound loneliness.
God seems completely absent. Jesus quotes from this verse on the cross (See
Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34) as He paid the penalty of human sin. It has been
said this psalm is the whole passion of Christ.
These words are
words that capture what is perhaps the greatest fear of people who love God –
the thought that the God they love and in whom they trust would one day forget
them, abandon them, turn His back to them in their time of greatest need. And
that is precisely the experience of Jesus on the cross. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The cup which the night
before Jesus had asked to be taken from him – Jesus was on the cross drinking
fully. God withdrew from Jesus so that he wouldn’t have to withdraw from us. It
is God’s separation from Jesus that draws us near to him. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The Father made Him who
had no sin to be sin for us…
Almighty God, Graciously behold this Your family for whom our Lord Jesus was willing to be betrayed and delivered into the hands of sinful men to suffer death upon the cross; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.[1]
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