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“My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?… But Thou art holy, O Thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel” (Psalm 22:1,3).
The Lord Jesus was forsaken by God on Calvary’s cross, and at the end of the three hours of darkness, He cried out to God what is written in our first verse today—“Why hast Thou forsaken Me?” He felt it very much that God had forsaken Him, although He knew that it was necessary.
But why did God forsake Him? We get the answer in verse 3—“But Thou are holy, O Thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.” God is a holy God, and He cannot look upon sin. When our blessed Lord Jesus was “made sin” for us, God had to turn His face away from His beloved Son.
You and I cannot imagine what this meant to the Lord Jesus, for He had known only happy fellowship with God from a past eternity. Yet He endured it all, not only for our sakes, but to settle the matter of sin for all eternity. How grateful we should be for all this!
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