The Forsaken Cry

The narration

From the cross, in His darkest hour, Jesus reached for words already written, a psalm David had penned a thousand years before. Psalm twenty-two opens in the voice of a forsaken man; Jesus made it His own. David's very first line: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" A thousand years later, at the ninth hour, Jesus cried it from the cross: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" The very same words. This was no cry of lost faith, even forsaken, He still calls God "my God." It was the sinless Son taking our place, and bearing the forsaking that our sin deserved. He was forsaken so that you never will be. However far you've run, the way home is open, and He opened it from the dark.