My God, why have you forsaken me?

On the cross Jesus cried, "Eloi, Eloi! Lama Sabachthani!" 

"My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me!"

This is a direct quote from the Hebrew Bible in Psalm 22.

GK Chesterton said it well:

But in the terrific tale of the Passion there is a distinct emotional suggestion that the author of all things (in some unthinkable way) went not only through agony but through doubt...the cry which confessed that God was forsaken of God...but let the Atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist.

In the beginning there was God. He was comprised of the Father and His Son, the Word. God's word was so real that it was a person, like a son born forth. God's love for His son (and vice versa) was an active spirit so alive that it was also a person - the Holy Spirit. Then one day, God separated Himself from His son. An eternal bond unjustly severed. 

And the Son was separated from everything which defines God: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.

Then He died.

Sunday Cometh

Jesus was too poor to own land for a proper burial. Joseph of Arimethea owned a tomb and gave it over to the disciples to bury him.

The disciple John said to Joseph, "We won't forget this kindness. Thank you."

Joseph replied, "No problem. It's only for the weekend."

It's easy to feel forsaken right now. For some of us it may even end in death. In Christ, it’s only for the weekend.

Moreover there is no loss we can encounter that He does not understand.