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Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Brian Mashburn
April 10, 2011
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When God Forsakes You
There is a statement by Jesus on the cross that really shook me when I took my first serious look at it.
It was when he said, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34)
A whole litany of questions went through my mind. None of them easy to categorize theologically or emotionally.
Did the Father forsake the Son? If so, how can God forsake God? And further, am I okay with a father who would do this to his son? Can I worship a God capable of that? Doesn't this sound like some kind of cosmic child abuse? And if God didn't forsake Jesus, then why did he presume that He did? Was Jesus mistaken? Can Jesus make mistakes?
Shew!
Today, join me at the foot of the cross again, listening to what Jesus has to say from that place of suffering and love, of devastation and salvation, of injustice and grace.
As difficult as these words are to navigate, it is this statement that makes the whole idea Jesus was fully human, the whole story of Christ put forth by the Bible, believable to me.