A heartfelt post wrestles with understanding suffering, God’s mercy, and unanswered prayer. It invites others to share how they’ve reconciled faith with life’s hardest moments. Join in to encourage and reflect on how God works, even when He feels silent.
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Jesus, the Holy sinless Son of God took All our sin upon himself.
He became sin, bearing our guilt, our shame and our punishment.
The punishment for sin is exclusion from God.
When he became si God separated himself from the second person of the trinity.
Jesus literally experience hell for us.
Hi,
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 was, for that time on the cross, detached from the Trinity.
God can have no association with sin.
Jesus had just taken on the sins of the world.
So the Father and Jesus wee no longer one.
He was alone for the first time ever.
John 10:30 I and my Father are one.
The good news is that we know Jesus was victorious before He died, and the union was restored.
Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
When Jesus uttered his last words before He died, He was again one with the Father.
Blessings
WrestleWGod
My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning?
O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; And in the night season, and am not silent.
But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel.
Our fathers trusted in You; They trusted, and You delivered them.
They cried to You, and were delivered; They trusted in You, and were not ashamed.
But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised by the people.
All those who see Me ridicule Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
“He trusted in the LORD, let Him rescue Him; Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!”
But You are He who took Me out of the womb; You made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts.
I was cast upon You from birth. From My mother’s womb You have been My God.
Be not far from Me, For trouble is near; For there is none to help.
Many bulls have surrounded Me; Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled Me.
They gape at Me with their mouths, Like a raging and roaring lion.
I am poured out like water, And all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It has melted within Me.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And My tongue clings to My jaws; You have brought Me to the dust of death.
For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet;
I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.
They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots.
But You, O LORD, do not be far from Me; O My Strength, hasten to help Me!
Deliver Me from the sword, My precious life from the power of the dog.
Save Me from the lion’s mouth And from the horns of the wild oxen! You have answered Me.
I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.
You who fear the LORD, praise Him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him, And fear Him, all you offspring of Israel!
For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Nor has He hidden His face from Him; But when He cried to Him, He heard.
My praise shall be of You in the great assembly; I will pay My vows before those who fear Him.
The poor shall eat and be satisfied; Those who seek Him will praise the LORD. Let your heart live forever!
All the ends of the world Shall remember and turn to the LORD, And all the families of the nations Shall worship before You.
For the kingdom is the LORD’S, And He rules over the nations.
All the prosperous of the earth Shall eat and worship; All those who go down to the dust Shall bow before Him, Even he who cannot keep himself alive.
A posterity shall serve Him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,
They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born, That He has done this. (It is finished)
In Psalm 22, The Spirit of The Christ (Jesus) compelled King David to prophecy of the death of the messiah is graphic detail. King David was not actually abandoned by God when he wrote this psalm, but he sure must have felt like he was. When men are on their last thread, they cry out in agony. A man of God will cry out to the only one who remains pure in every circumstance; he will plead with the only one who is able to relieve his agony. A man who trusts only in himself has only himself to cry to in his agony. Men facing certain death (like awaiting execution) will reveal in what they trust, and from where they hope their relief will come. Pleading with God in complete agony is a strong testimony that the one pleading trusts only in God, there is no loss of faith because the faith is real and permeant. David felt this way, and in his psalm prophesied of the death of The Messiah.
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying,
“Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated,
“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
Mark 15:34
Blessings
KP
Hi,
Habakkuk 1:13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? KJV
God cannot look upon sin.
Jesus had taken on Himself the sins of the world.
So the connection between Father and Son was broken.
Jesus felt it.
He felt it.
Jesus did it because He loves us that much.
Thank you for loving us Jesus.
Blessings
