The Agony of Separation
“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” Then with a loud voice, He spoke His last words, “It is finished. Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.”
And with that He breathed His last breath. (Matt. 27:46, Mark 15:34, Luke 23:46, John 19:30)
Not only was Jesus abandoned and betrayed by all 12 of His disciples, but He felt the ultimate form of abandonment, forsaken by His own Father.
The burden of humanities sin weighed heavily upon our Saviors shoulders, but the separation this caused between Him, and the Father was unbearable.
“I and the Father are one.” Yet for this moment, sin separated Him from the Father.
Not His sin.
Ours.
The sin of mankind separated Him from His Father.
The weight of sin was not only grieving our Lord Jesus, but it was grieving our Heavenly Father, who had to look away from His Beloved Son.
Grief, excruciating pain, separation, the tearing apart, the fragmentation that comes from a brutal detachment are just some of what both the Father and the Son experienced at the cross on Friday the day He willingly gave His life as a ransom for many.
They did this all for love.
Love for us.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
“It is finished.” It is paid in full.
For that moment, there was stillness, silence, death, and the weight of sin, separated heaven and earth.
The ultimate sacrifice for the ultimate love.
The love of God for all mankind.
Christ became the curse for us.
Galatians 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.”)
What better day to give your life or to recommit your life to Him than today?
Love for us compelled Him.
Does love for Him compel you?
In Christ,
Apostle Cathy Coppola
