You Have Been My God

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, and from the words of My groaning?

O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and am not silent.

But You are holy, enthroned in the praises of Israel.

Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted, and You delivered them.

They cried to You, and were delivered; they trusted in You, and were not ashamed.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

All those who see Me ridicule Me; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

“He trusted in the Lord, let Him rescue Him; let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!”

But You are He who took Me out of the womb; you made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts.

I was cast upon You from birth. From My mother’s womb You have been My God.

Psalm 22:1-10

We are intended to live and relate in relationships and community, not in isolation. This is what makes solitary confinement such a harsh punishment.

Isolation is the agony Christ suffered when His eternal relationship With the Father was broken on the cross. Jesus was on the cross and He asked His Father, “My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?” Jesus suffered alone and in isolation, cut off from His God, and His relationship with His Father. Because of that He secured for us the promise of the Father: “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”

Christ endured the agony and abandonment of the cross for us so that we would never be alone or abandoned by our God. Ever.

Those who know Jesus are never alone.

Our Daily Bread – March 26, 2016