My God, my God, Why?

Psalm 22:1
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

These words are the saddest words in the Bible! I do not like to read them, nor think about them being said out loud. These are the words of our dying Savior. The Lord Jesus Christ uttered these words pouring out these emotional feelings to a mad crowd.

I guess the reason these words cut to the quick of my soul is that I have had feelings and uttered similar words in frustration for the situations I found myself in. I am glad that we can give all our emotions and heart ache to our loving Father in confidence that He will not scold, punish, or ignore me when I cry these words.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

The Lord put an extreme emphases on who he is addressing. My God, my God! Make no mistake the Son of God is speaking to His (the) Heavenly Father. I believe this shows the deepest level of relationship. I believe these words are the expression of the totality of all that Love can be defined. Because of the relationship of the Father for His son(s) we can in assurance pour our heart and emotions to the One whom can and will hear our prayers.

The word Why has some great meanings that help us to see the impact this statement has;

Why= For what cause, or reason? This is the question every soul must answer, Why did Jesus go to the cross? He never once did anything to deserve this death, so why? Because of our sins. He went willingly to the cross to redeem (pay) for the sins we committed, and now we can receive full and free forgiveness!

Why= Foe what purpose? The purpose was to secure for all eternity the souls of any sinner willing to place their trust and faith in the work that was and is completed upon the cross. The purpose was to save my soul, what about yours?

Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

This is the continuation of the previous statement. I too have many times in my daily walk with the Lord when I feel the sting of my emotions as they roller coaster between sanity and gross unreasonableness. I am not a patient person, I have a microwave mentality, when I seek help, I think it should be done and over within 30 seconds or less.

I am a spoiled child that never wants to be out of my Fathers sight (I know I can never be out of His sight, but I can loose sight of Him). When I do not get the immediate response from the Lord I want, I understand the Psalmist when we cry "why art thou so far from helping me?"

As a spoiled child, when I feel like I am not receiving the amount of attention I desire, I crank up the volume, I stomp and yell louder to the Lord, Demanding to know why are the "words of my roaring" ignored?

I am thankful that none of these words are true, because I am assured that the Lord Jesus Christ secured my adoption into the family of God! Believe me God will never leave me, nor forsake me!