| 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). |
| To stop and meditate on these words produces feelings in the soul of awe, of worship, and of praise and thanksgiving. This heartrending cry uttered by the Lord Jesus on the cross at the end of those hours of darkness causes us to realize, in some measure at least, what it must have meant to His holy person to be forsaken in those three hours of darkness when God, “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). |
| Although we can never understand or fully enter into what it meant for the Lord Jesus to suffer for sin, yet it is good for our souls to read and recount from Scripture those atoning sufferings. Here is just one example: |
| “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5). |
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