My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Today, let’s not get mixed up as we consider Jesus’ words from the cross. At the end of six hours on the cross, and with three of those hours being darkness, Jesus had trodden down the winepress of the fierce wrath of God the Almighty on your sin and mine. His atoning work was nearly finished. These words that came from Jesus’ lips as He had reached the culminating climax of His anguish. No words ever spoken have ever been so full of anguish. As we gaze upon our Savior at the foot of the cross, may God help us to measure the height of God’s love by the depth of Jesus’ grief. I see in these agonizing words, four truths we dare not escape: Something was happening on Golgotha’s center cross between two thieves. What was happening?