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What Depths of Suffering
“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. 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 27:45-46).
We can never take in what the Lord Jesus endured at the cross, and especially 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). That time when He “bare our sins in His own body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24). Our finite minds and our dulled senses can, at best, only dimly grasp the sheer depths of the gulf spanned and the judgment endured when the Holy Savior paid the price and bore the penalty of sin.
What divine love, stupendous grace, and marvellous mercy we have to consider. Though we will never know the depth of His suffering, we can worship Him today as a risen glorified man and as one who will never suffer for sin again. “For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified” (Hebrews 10:14).
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