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The Scream
By Elena Varnavskaya
March 11th, 2026
“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying… ‘My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?’” Matthew 27:46
In Jesus’ cry on the cross was the cry of all humanity—especially at life’s most critical moments. Have there been such moments in your life when you screamed and called for help?
I personally haven’t experienced this for quite a long time, but according to my mother, she went through such experiences with her mother during childhood. Returning from another Russian village to their own, they were caught in a severe snowstorm. Their horse got off the road, and they were covered with snow. But in the morning, the snowstorm subsided, and they were found several kilometers from their destination. My grandmother’s prayers and the search party formed by their fellow villagers helped save my mother’s life.
A few years later, my mother once again came face-to-face with death on that same road in the summer when a pack of wolves chased after them. To this day, my mother remembers it in vivid colors, but now she understands that in both cases the Lord saved her—and has continued to keep her safe over 80 years.
We are now facing an invisible enemy called the coronavirus. It takes a person’s life quickly, depriving them of air, without which we cannot live even for a few minutes. To whom do we cry at such moments?
Since Eden, people have believed that they can live their lives independent of God. The theory of evolution is just a complex explanation for this opinion, and the way most people live their lives seems to confirm this thinking. The discovery that God is the only Source of life can come as late in life as the realization that we are not immune from invisible enemies.
Adam and Eve had to die as a result of their sin in the Garden of Eden, and God did not need statistics to prove He was right about that. But He wanted us to live, so He devised a Plan of Redemption to enable them to return to His presence.
Incredibly, God has become one of us! Jesus passed through the path of rejection and contempt to a point we never have to suffer. Isaiah 53:3–5 describes it this way: “He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.”
Jesus died in our place, bearing our sins and their consequences. He exclaimed, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” He feared that sin was so abhorrent to God that their separation would be eternal. Christ died, having done what was necessary for each of us so that we would not suffer the fate of eternal death.
May our cry for help always ascend to the One who can help us and always come to our rescue in time. As has been repeatedly shown through the lives of many heroes of faith, this can be our experience, too.
The Scream
By Elena Varnavskaya
March 11th, 2026
“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying… ‘My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?’” Matthew 27:46
In Jesus’ cry on the cross was the cry of all humanity—especially at life’s most critical moments. Have there been such moments in your life when you screamed and called for help?
I personally haven’t experienced this for quite a long time, but according to my mother, she went through such experiences with her mother during childhood. Returning from another Russian village to their own, they were caught in a severe snowstorm. Their horse got off the road, and they were covered with snow. But in the morning, the snowstorm subsided, and they were found several kilometers from their destination. My grandmother’s prayers and the search party formed by their fellow villagers helped save my mother’s life.
A few years later, my mother once again came face-to-face with death on that same road in the summer when a pack of wolves chased after them. To this day, my mother remembers it in vivid colors, but now she understands that in both cases the Lord saved her—and has continued to keep her safe over 80 years.
We are now facing an invisible enemy called the coronavirus. It takes a person’s life quickly, depriving them of air, without which we cannot live even for a few minutes. To whom do we cry at such moments?
Since Eden, people have believed that they can live their lives independent of God. The theory of evolution is just a complex explanation for this opinion, and the way most people live their lives seems to confirm this thinking. The discovery that God is the only Source of life can come as late in life as the realization that we are not immune from invisible enemies.
Adam and Eve had to die as a result of their sin in the Garden of Eden, and God did not need statistics to prove He was right about that. But He wanted us to live, so He devised a Plan of Redemption to enable them to return to His presence.
Incredibly, God has become one of us! Jesus passed through the path of rejection and contempt to a point we never have to suffer. Isaiah 53:3–5 describes it this way: “He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.”
Jesus died in our place, bearing our sins and their consequences. He exclaimed, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” He feared that sin was so abhorrent to God that their separation would be eternal. Christ died, having done what was necessary for each of us so that we would not suffer the fate of eternal death.
May our cry for help always ascend to the One who can help us and always come to our rescue in time. As has been repeatedly shown through the lives of many heroes of faith, this can be our experience, too.
THREE ANGELS BROADCASTING NETWORK DEVOTIONAL
The Scream
By Elena Varnavskaya
March 11th, 2026
“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying… ‘My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?’” Matthew 27:46
In Jesus’ cry on the cross was the cry of all humanity—especially at life’s most critical moments. Have there been such moments in your life when you screamed and called for help?
I personally haven’t experienced this for quite a long time, but according to my mother, she went through such experiences with her mother during childhood. Returning from another Russian village to their own, they were caught in a severe snowstorm. Their horse got off the road, and they were covered with snow. But in the morning, the snowstorm subsided, and they were found several kilometers from their destination. My grandmother’s prayers and the search party formed by their fellow villagers helped save my mother’s life.
A few years later, my mother once again came face-to-face with death on that same road in the summer when a pack of wolves chased after them. To this day, my mother remembers it in vivid colors, but now she understands that in both cases the Lord saved her—and has continued to keep her safe over 80 years.
We are now facing an invisible enemy called the coronavirus. It takes a person’s life quickly, depriving them of air, without which we cannot live even for a few minutes. To whom do we cry at such moments?
Since Eden, people have believed that they can live their lives independent of God. The theory of evolution is just a complex explanation for this opinion, and the way most people live their lives seems to confirm this thinking. The discovery that God is the only Source of life can come as late in life as the realization that we are not immune from invisible enemies.
Adam and Eve had to die as a result of their sin in the Garden of Eden, and God did not need statistics to prove He was right about that. But He wanted us to live, so He devised a Plan of Redemption to enable them to return to His presence.
Incredibly, God has become one of us! Jesus passed through the path of rejection and contempt to a point we never have to suffer. Isaiah 53:3–5 describes it this way: “He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.”
Jesus died in our place, bearing our sins and their consequences. He exclaimed, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” He feared that sin was so abhorrent to God that their separation would be eternal. Christ died, having done what was necessary for each of us so that we would not suffer the fate of eternal death.
May our cry for help always ascend to the One who can help us and always come to our rescue in time. As has been repeatedly shown through the lives of many heroes of faith, this can be our experience, too.
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