| Forsaken |
| “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me” (Matthew 27:46). |
| “I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne” (Revelation 3:21). |
| In a meeting at Mildmay, England, in 1890, the evangelist, Charles Spurgeon, related the following story: |
| An elderly believer who suffered much with bodily infirmity and pain asked a friend if he ever knew anyone forsaken of God, for he felt that was his condition. “Only one,” was the reply, “but He, today, is sitting on His Father’s throne, at His Father’s right hand.” |
| Yes, the Lord Jesus was forsaken of God in those awful three hours of darkness when He “made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Now, as a result of that great work of Calvary, “He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 1:20). |
| He was forsaken that we might never be forsaken. |
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