"Why have you forsaken me?" Mark 15:34.
That's Jesus to his God. Direct quote from a psalm. Now sometimes we want to minimize the cost to Jesus so we note rightly that particular psalm ends with praises for God's faithfulness. But. No praises at the start. Yet. It expresses powerfully Jesus's state of mind as he dies scorned by those he had lived for. Where are you, God? Why have you, too, left me? Won't you save my precious life from the power of the dog? And then he died. Unsaved. He died. Scorned. He died. The price Jesus paid so that we would never have to pray the same.
We visit with a brother or sister today remembering the precious value Jesus placed on our lives. And throughout eternity together, unforsaken, we thank God by words and deeds meet to his love.
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