Jesus Suffered Our Pain
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“It was God personally present in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against men their trespasses but canceling them. (2 Corinthians 5:19 in the Amplified Bible)
Have you ever felt forsaken by God? Have you ever said, “God, where are you?”
When we’re going through a very difficult time, when prayers are not answered, when things go from bad to worse…we conclude God has forsaken us.
Even Jesus expressed His agony on the cross in these words: “My God, my God why have you forsaken me” (Mark 15:34)?
What do you think? Had God forsaken Jesus during his darkest moment?
We have been taught that, since God cannot look upon sin, and all of our sins were dumped on Jesus at the cross, God turned His back on His Son. But this is not true. Listen to the words from the Bible: God was personally present in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself…. (2 Corinthians 5:19 in the Amplified Bible)
God was personally present in Christ at the Cross.
God the Father was very much involved in every bit of Jesus’ suffering. Just as He is very much involved in every bit of our suffering.
But Jesus, being fully human as well as fully divine, felt forsaken by God. He experienced even this pain for us.
Father, thank you that You understand our pain and that You are always with us.
Read more in Wayne Jacobsen’s book, He Loves Me! Chapter 14, “What Really Happened on the Cross,” pages 111-117
Questions: Have you ever felt forsaken by God? What comforted you then?
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Helen L., thank you for the devotional. I need to look at your question in two ways. The first being that before I knew Christ in my life, the abandonment I carried all my life was directed only at one person. As I lived a secular life, I blamed not God as I didn’t know Him. today, with Christ as my Savior, this one person has since passed but that didn’t stop me from forgiving him as the Lord forgave me.
I’v experienced a lot of trials since coming to God and, no. I have not felt forsaken by God. His grace and mercy fill each day. His love will always comfort me.
I have read ‘He Loves Me’ by Wayne Jacobsen and found it to be very refreshing.
He also points out that the idea that God cannot look upon sin and so turned His back upon Jesus is without basis in scripture.
God looks upon sin every day since the fall. He is not unaware of the depravity of humanity’s actions and of that the heart of man is desperately wicked.
I have found it very comforting and enlightening to know that Jesus understands the feeling of abandonment and isolation that comes upon me at times.
Life’s circumstances and our personal perceptions can easily conspire to make us feel we have been forgotten and ‘forsaken’ by God. Jesus has experienced even this!
But feelings and perceptions are not to be trusted. The truth is in His Word. “I will never leave you. I will never forsake you.”
You may feel alone but you are not. You may think you have been forsaken but that is a lie.
Jesus, as fully human as we are, experienced the magnitude of sin’s ability to make us feel we have been completely left alone and utterly rejected by God. Not so. God was in Christ returning us to favour with Him and canceling our sins!
I find it quite startling that this idea has taken so long to be recognized. The Father never abandoned His Son…. they are One.
Jesus words at the cross were not a statement of fact but an anguished question from the heart of a man (who like we often are) was in such extreme torment and distress that His ability to feel God’s presence and be aware of His Father’s love had become clouded and impaired.
He was ‘touched with the feelings of our infirmities’ and feelings are unreliable as a gauge of God’s trustworthiness.
Jesus was not abandoned but He did feel as if He had been. He was overwhelmed by the intensity of sin’s power to separate us from our Father. Still though the ugliness of the worlds sin felt so completely opposite to His Fathers presence He was not alone.
Jesus knows fully even the feeling of being forsaken, but it is a ‘feeling’ and not a fact.
Bless His Holy Name!