Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani! My Father! My Father!!

While on the Cross, Jesus shouted, “My Father, My Father why have you forsaken me!”
God doesn’t forsake, so why did He ask that?
Although, it was written the Messiah will die, but what they did to Him was more than the suffering that was written.

He was killed in a manner no one has ever been killed before and never will there be any.
If we look at the Old Testament and compare it with what’s written about the death of the Messiah, what they did to Him was more than what was recorded in the Book of the Prophets.

It was too much, that He had to shout, why have you forsaken me!
What is written about His death is an introduction, it’s for the world to know the Messiah died to save the world, but there’s no complete account of His death.

It’s by revelation we know what happened in a little way, even that little revelation would make you sad.
For the Messiah to have endured explains how important the human soul is to God.

John 21:25 says, “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.” This tells us why not everything Jesus did was written down—there was not room enough to record it all.”

Not everything Jesus did was recorded, and not everything they did to Him was recorded, the New Testament is a key to the revelation of all those things not written.

When you’ve prayed, fasted, and no answer and it seems God has abandoned you, it isn’t abandonment, it’s for His will to be done, such a will that’s above your understanding, instead of going your way, doing your thing because you believe God has abandoned you, be patient even till death, if that’s His will.

There comes a time when we face such problems that may lead to asking, “God why have you forsaken me” even when we know He can’t forsake us.

Asking God why He has forsaken us isn’t a bad thing, He doesn’t feel bad about it because He understands we are humans, challenges and problems make us weak in faith.
His suffering was too much because the sins of the world were to much, His death was terrible because the destruction done by sin was terrible.

To understand how much God loves us, consider the suffering of Jesus, and the type of death they gave Him, for a man to lay down His life to save another shows how important that life is to him.
In sin or outside sin, we all are important to God.

We are important to God even in sin, because there’s a prize already paid; even when we reject the prize, the prize doesn’t reject us.

The soul is important to God, it’s an essence that came forth from Him, He loves it just as He loves His Son, for it’s written for God so much loved the world.

When He shouted, “”Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani!” His Father heard Him, He wasn’t happy, but He kept His cool because of His will, it must be done.

God isn’t happy seeing you go through tough times, He’s a compassionate Father, but why does it take Him too long to answer? For His will to be done, His will isn’t to watch you cry for years for a particular thing, His will works hand in hand with divine timing.

When you face such hard problems that make you shout, “My God, My God why have you forsaken me!” Remember there are many verses where He has promised, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”
Deuteronomy 31:6-8, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”

-Kanayo Ebuka