Yet the LORD was pleased to crush him severely. —Isaiah 53:10
As soul wrenching as it can be to watch a loved one’s body being overtaken by pain or to sit with a friend who has been unjustly accused and publicly humiliated, these situations—combined and then multiplied thousands upon thousands of times—merely hint at the agonies of Calvary. Our minds revolt at the imaginings of what we would have seen and heard had we been there in person: the ridicule, the torture, the killing.
Perhaps the greatest moment of terror came when Jesus cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matt. 27:46 esv). Surely His voice had never sounded like that before. But neither had the Father ever been silent before. So, He who had talked down storms and demons now shouted in anguish.
Jesus suffered greater pain than broken bones and torn flesh; He suffered the utter darkness of separation from His Father. This had never happened before. But it had to be—because sin had to be judged, and He was the only worthy sacrifice.
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Incomparable: 50 Days with Jesus © 2024 by Revived Hearts Foundation
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
Had Jesus not been forsaken, we would be forsaken forever. How should this affect our attitude toward sin and toward the Savior?