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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).
Forsaken of God! Never will we be able to enter into what that must have been for the Lord Jesus when, compressed into three hours of darkness, 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).
Yet, while we will never be able to fully enter in to those atoning sufferings, yet in the measure in which we meditate on them today it will bring fresh praise and gratitude from our innermost heart and soul.
Here is how the hymn-writer, J.G. Deck, expressed it:
Our sins were laid on His sacred head,
The curse by our Lord was borne;
For us a victim our Savior bled,
And endured that death of scorn;
Himself He gave our poor hearts to win —
(Was ever love, Lord, like Thine!)
From the paths of folly, and shame and sin,
And fill them with joys divine.
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