Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Matthew 27:45-46

Have you ever felt all alone? In the passage above we read that Jesus knows exactly how it feels to be isolated and seemingly forgotten. His statement above expresses raw emotion as He took on the sin of the world – our sins.

Isaiah prophesied as much as he described what the Messiah would do –

All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53:6

It was His mission, his reason for coming into our world and when He spoke those words he also quoted from David’s Messianic Psalm –

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?

Psalm 22:1

We’ve read several Scriptures today, but let’s end on the hope found in John’s Gospel –

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:16-17