Today's Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 22 verse 1:
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
This past Sunday I preached a sermon on the divinity and humanity which are both in complete solidarity in Jesus.
In Jesus God knew suffering. God knew pain. God knew rejection and torture and terror. To put it very strongly but not unbiblically, Jesus God knew Godforsakenness.
So we have a God who is in complete solidarity with those who suffer. We have a God in complete solidarity with those who protest. God enters flesh and becomes one with all those who wonder where God is and why God has forsaken them.
In other words, God throws God's lot in with the Godforsaken, the struggling, the tortured.
This is something to think on very deeply over these next few days as we enter into the Holy Week. God went to a cross. God went to a gallows. And God struggled to breath under a knee pressed down on a neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
And as the old spiritual says:
"Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?"
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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