23.2.19

Why has Thou forsaken Me?


Was Jesus Christ surprised to feel at the moment when He expected and needed His Father's presence close and abiding, that His Father had withdrawn himself (although, similar or exact working is found in the Old Testament: Palms 22:1 "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" In the canonical Gospels, we find the words in Matthew & Mark: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani [Ἠλί, Ἠλί, λιμὰ σαβαχθανί])?

It could be that He was fulfilling the scripture found in the Old Testament, could be that He was so familiar with the words of the Old Testament (seeing as He is and was the God of the Old Testament; even Jehovah), or could it be that no matter how well He understood and remembered the facts that were in that every moment transpiring, that much like every single human being on this Earth (and elsewhere too?), when in the moment of experiencing something that pushes your limits and shocks you that you couldn't "handle it" or that you're not as able to withstand or endure it as well as you had previously imagined, that you open your mouth and very deliberately cry out to Your Father and Your God--because Jesus Christ said, in John 8:29, "And He that sent Me is with Me: the Father hath not left Me alone; for I do always those things that please Him."

For a person, let alone a God and an Only born-Son-in-the-flesh, to have always been with His Father, and to have always done only the things that please Him, to have the presence of Him torn-away during Your hour of need, must have been surprising or shocking, no matter what "knowledge" You had of its happening.  Whoa!

These are all hypotheses and wonderments...

JPS

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