Forsaken
Good Friday Meditation
“My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me? *
and are so far from my cry
and from the words of my distress?
and are so far from my cry
and from the words of my distress?
2
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but
you do not answer; *
by night as well, but I find no rest.
by night as well, but I find no rest.
3
Yet you are the Holy One, *
enthroned upon the praises ofIsrael
enthroned upon the praises of
4
Our forefathers put their trust in
you; *
they trusted, and you delivered them. “
they trusted, and you delivered them. “
Jesus spoke on the cross these words from Psalm 22. Matthew
27:46 . When he was arrested he said to
Peter, “ the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?” John
18:11
He obviously also
heard Peter’s denial of him. “ Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus.
Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the
courtyard of the high priest, but Peter was standing outside at the gate. So
the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out, spoke to the
woman who guarded the gate, and brought Peter in. The woman said to Peter,
"You are not also one of this man's disciples, are you?" He said,
"I am not."” ( from John)
Can we enter into how our Lord felt with these words from
the Cross? Can we know a little bit of
what it means to be left out, abandoned and without hope? Jesus prayed that the cup would pass from him
if possible. His comfort and ours in
trials is that God has a plan . “ O my
Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I
will, but as thou wilt.” Matthew 26:39
My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me? In this time of sorrow we know that Jesus
suffered all the penalty and sin of the world for us. How do we repay Him? We can never do that. We can do His Will now .
I close with a comment my great-grandfather made about
WWI. “ The church must stand confronting
the nation, herself strong in the faith, strong in her courage, profound in her
conviction of the established Throne of God, and the infinite rectitude of the
Divine government, and the profound compassion of the Divine heart; and by the
dignity and heroism of these spiritual hosts of wickedness which poison life at
the springs of thought and conception , and make calamities more terrible than
the bloodshed on the battle.” A
Treasury of G Campbell Morgan.
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