When thinking about all of the abandonment and betrayal I have experienced, and that anger and despondency which starts to rise to the surface
as a result, I am reminded of the fact that there is only thing that can conquer these feelings. (And I know that everyone has experienced some form of abandonment in their lifetime. It really can create a lot of trauma, trust issues, a feeling of detachment, distance and despair.)
But when pondering being forsaken, just think about what God manifest in the flesh - The Lord Jesus Christ said on the cross in Matthew 27:46 "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?"
Jesus Christ experienced such an incomprehensibly deep level of sorrow at this moment.
If you feel rejected and abandoned today, if you feel like an outcast, ostracized and depressed as a result, just think about what Jesus Christ felt and experienced, and it was for you, for me, for all of us. He left glory to experience that for us. Look at what it says in this prophecy in Isaiah 53:3-5 about The Lord Jesus Christ, "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
Jesus Christ literally experienced a greater pain than anyone - being completely forsaken by God the father. The Lord Jesus Christ was temporarily forsaken by the Father because he had all of the world's sins added to his account as if he had done it and he was experiencing the punishment and judgement of that, while he is completely innocent and perfect. He took our place on that cross and paid the fine for us.
The vicarious substitutionary atonement is so incredibly profound. It is the crux of human history.
2 Corinthians 5:21 says, "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
1 Peter 2:24 - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Romans 3:24-26 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
But when pondering being forsaken, just think about what God manifest in the flesh - The Lord Jesus Christ said on the cross in Matthew 27:46 "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?"
Jesus Christ experienced such an incomprehensibly deep level of sorrow at this moment.
If you feel rejected and abandoned today, if you feel like an outcast, ostracized and depressed as a result, just think about what Jesus Christ felt and experienced, and it was for you, for me, for all of us. He left glory to experience that for us. Look at what it says in this prophecy in Isaiah 53:3-5 about The Lord Jesus Christ, "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
Jesus Christ literally experienced a greater pain than anyone - being completely forsaken by God the father. The Lord Jesus Christ was temporarily forsaken by the Father because he had all of the world's sins added to his account as if he had done it and he was experiencing the punishment and judgement of that, while he is completely innocent and perfect. He took our place on that cross and paid the fine for us.
The vicarious substitutionary atonement is so incredibly profound. It is the crux of human history.
2 Corinthians 5:21 says, "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
1 Peter 2:24 - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Romans 3:24-26 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
31-35, M
