Friday is for Heart Songs
(Cf. Matthew 27:45-46, Mk. 15:33-34; Psalm 22)
“My God, My God, Why Have Your Forsaken Me?”
It was the ninth hour of the day, 3:00 PM by our reckoning. Hanging in silent agony for some time, He opens His mouth and reveals what His heart has been meditating upon through the six hours of agony on the cross—the twenty-second Psalm.
He applies the psalm to Himself.
All of our words fail.
How do we comprehend the magnitude of this event? God the Son feels forsaken by the Father! How can it be? How is it possible? Finite minds cannot penetrate the mystery of the Infinite One who is Triune, or of separation between the Father and beloved Son, or the vastness of His plan to save those who would believe.
Surely, you too have been forsaken at some point in your life. Yet how can we even begin to comprehend the sense of loss and agony that Christ must have felt?
Infinite relational intimacy with infinite beauty, love, holiness, glory, righteousness, compassion—perfection lost, as the Father turns His back on the sin-bearing Son.
That’s what he endured for you.
Think on that brother. Think on that sister. Reflect on that. Fall in love with Jesus. And tell someone about how extravagant is the grace of God.
[Based on the devotional Experience the Passion of Christ, (Sojourning Press, 2005).]
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