Jesus was
forsaken on the final moments of the cross and for the three days in hell. Jesus as savior had to experience every
experience a human would or could ever experience including death, and a trip
into hell.
At Jesus
death, his spirit was released from his body.
When God raised Jesus from the dead, Jesus spirit was reconnected to his
body. At death, Jesus body lay in the
tomb, and his spirit entered the eternal world, and as a forsaken being, was
taken into hell by Satan who had the keys to hell and death. He had already endured the assault on every
aspect of what it meant to be human during his crucifixion, now he is
experiencing what it is like to be forsaken and abandoned by God.
Jesus had
to experience this, because in our times of really bad times on earth, one of
the thoughts that the thief likes to plant in our minds is that God has
forsaken you.
The thief
enjoys planting seeds in the minds of people under great stress and duress, and
one of his most effective seed he plants is, the reason you (he actually will say, I)
the reason I am going through this is because God has forsaken me.
So… with
this seed planted, our first impulse if not fully full of scripture, we will
also think, that this tragedy or crisis or abuse is because I have done
something wrong, and therefore, God has forsaken me.
It is
true that on the cross and the three days in hell, Jesus was forsaken and
abandoned, and we cannot grasp the sufferings of that time. But it was so horrible, and the price he paid
was so immense, that this is now forever true.
God
cannot and will not forsake you. Jesus
has suffered being forsaken, and abandoned, and on the third day, at the worst
of the suffering, God raised Jesus from the dead, and in so doing, took the
keys of hell and death away from Satan, put them into the hands of Jesus, and
at his resurrection and ascension, given all authority over heaven and earth,
and since hell is in the bowels of the earth, Jesus is Lord over heaven, earth
and all of hell. Listen, it is not
possible for God to forsake us, or anyone anymore.
If
trouble comes, it is NOT because God has forsaken you.
God loves
you, he is not forsaking you.
No race director leaves the race until all their runners are safely accounted for. How much more does the Heavenly Father manifest love to all human beings?