Not A Question

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Good morning, Lord

Father in Heaven, I seek You first-the knowledge of Your limitless love in Christ and endless power. Build my trust and my passion. I take up my cross and follow...In Jesus' name…

Memory verse: Ephesians 2:6 “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.”

Verse of the day: Romans 13:6-7

6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

Daily Reading:  1 Samuel 30-31 Luke 13:23-35

Not A question

On this which we call Holy Week, many questions come up and need answers.

I always wondered why Christ, dying on the cross, cried out, “My God, My God-why have You forsaken me?”

After all, Jesus knew what was going to happen on this day since the point in His life He became aware of who He was. So why did He cry loudly, “Why have You forsaken me?”

The only way for me to ‘understand’ is to remember my training for basketball in college. We worked out for three hours a day, preseason, and then every other day after that we had to run 2 miles. I remember having to repeat to myself, “I will finish this-I will be back and this will be over…” Now, in no way is this to compare to the experience of Jesus on the cross-no way-but it gives me a glimpse of why Jesus said what He said.

Psalm 22:1&2

1 “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?    Why are you so far from saving me,    so far from my cries of anguish?”

Jesus was with God when the Psalmist was inspired to write these words. Jesus knew that the words were for Him. He also knew the words in Psalm 22:24

“For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.”

On the cross, Jesus repeated the words from ages before-He knew He would die and be resurrected-but he expressed His feeling of desolation while witnessing to the perfection of God’s plan of our salvation.

“This is how it must be to complete The Father’s plan”. Every second of suffering was witness to Jesus that God’s plan was in motion and being completed.

I think, also, that it was a teaching moment-and this is not a stretch-in the darkest moment of the entire ministry of the Son of the Living God, He cried out a Bible verse-which should tell us something very important:

We must hide God’s word in our hearts(Psalm 119:11) so that in our darkest times, we have God’s word on the tips of our tongues to witness to God’s plan and provision and feel the Holy Spirit’s power and His sustaining of our hope.

...because He loves us,

Father in Heaven,

Your name is my hope of Your kingdom and life. Forgive me for ignoring Your truth. Lead me away from the choice of ignorance.

Great and mighty God of restoration,

In the name of Christ Jesus,

Amen