I’ve been meditating on Jesus’ cry from the cross:
“Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani.”
Quoting from Psalm 22:1, Jesus was crying out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
When He spoke those words, there was no audible reply from a cloud, no army of angels sent to deliver Him. Just taunts from His enemies and the sobs of His mother and friends.
Jesus, the Son of God, knew why He came to earth. He knew how He would suffer. And He knew He had the power to lay down His life and to take it up again.
Still, He asked why.
And when He committed His spirit into the hands of His Father, He was laid in a tomb, dark and silent.
I take great comfort in knowing my Savior asked God why, because, like everyone else, I have asked Him why at times:
“Why was my father murdered?”
“Why did you allow me to have cancer?”
“Why did you allow me to struggle with depression following my cancer diagnosis?”
I have never received an answer to any of those questions. The silence, the waiting, was agonizing.
It still is—even today.
But it is in the deep darkness I have learned that God does see. He does care. He hurts for His own creation, for those created in His image.
To Jesus’ followers, all hope seemed lost at the foot of the cross. But between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, there was Holy Saturday. While they grieved, redemption was at work, although they didn't know it at the time.
God was working in the waiting.
How do we know He is working? Because He is faithful to the promises He made in Scripture, from His promises to Noah after the flood, to the Israelites trekking through the desert on the way to the Promised Land, to the apostles who gave everything for the Gospel.
Though we can’t see the end result, we can trust in the working and the waiting because we know in whom our hope is found.
You may be wondering whether your struggles will ever end. But remember: With God, though your suffering is painful, your future is filled with eternal hope.
As Jesus declared to the apostle John, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades” (Revelation 1:17–18).
Jack Graham
“Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani.”
Quoting from Psalm 22:1, Jesus was crying out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
When He spoke those words, there was no audible reply from a cloud, no army of angels sent to deliver Him. Just taunts from His enemies and the sobs of His mother and friends.
Jesus, the Son of God, knew why He came to earth. He knew how He would suffer. And He knew He had the power to lay down His life and to take it up again.
Still, He asked why.
And when He committed His spirit into the hands of His Father, He was laid in a tomb, dark and silent.
I take great comfort in knowing my Savior asked God why, because, like everyone else, I have asked Him why at times:
“Why was my father murdered?”
“Why did you allow me to have cancer?”
“Why did you allow me to struggle with depression following my cancer diagnosis?”
I have never received an answer to any of those questions. The silence, the waiting, was agonizing.
It still is—even today.
But it is in the deep darkness I have learned that God does see. He does care. He hurts for His own creation, for those created in His image.
To Jesus’ followers, all hope seemed lost at the foot of the cross. But between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, there was Holy Saturday. While they grieved, redemption was at work, although they didn't know it at the time.
God was working in the waiting.
How do we know He is working? Because He is faithful to the promises He made in Scripture, from His promises to Noah after the flood, to the Israelites trekking through the desert on the way to the Promised Land, to the apostles who gave everything for the Gospel.
Though we can’t see the end result, we can trust in the working and the waiting because we know in whom our hope is found.
You may be wondering whether your struggles will ever end. But remember: With God, though your suffering is painful, your future is filled with eternal hope.
As Jesus declared to the apostle John, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades” (Revelation 1:17–18).
Jack Graham
I’ve been meditating on Jesus’ cry from the cross:
“Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani.”
Quoting from Psalm 22:1, Jesus was crying out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
When He spoke those words, there was no audible reply from a cloud, no army of angels sent to deliver Him. Just taunts from His enemies and the sobs of His mother and friends.
Jesus, the Son of God, knew why He came to earth. He knew how He would suffer. And He knew He had the power to lay down His life and to take it up again.
Still, He asked why.
And when He committed His spirit into the hands of His Father, He was laid in a tomb, dark and silent.
I take great comfort in knowing my Savior asked God why, because, like everyone else, I have asked Him why at times:
“Why was my father murdered?”
“Why did you allow me to have cancer?”
“Why did you allow me to struggle with depression following my cancer diagnosis?”
I have never received an answer to any of those questions. The silence, the waiting, was agonizing.
It still is—even today.
But it is in the deep darkness I have learned that God does see. He does care. He hurts for His own creation, for those created in His image.
To Jesus’ followers, all hope seemed lost at the foot of the cross. But between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, there was Holy Saturday. While they grieved, redemption was at work, although they didn't know it at the time.
God was working in the waiting.
How do we know He is working? Because He is faithful to the promises He made in Scripture, from His promises to Noah after the flood, to the Israelites trekking through the desert on the way to the Promised Land, to the apostles who gave everything for the Gospel.
Though we can’t see the end result, we can trust in the working and the waiting because we know in whom our hope is found.
You may be wondering whether your struggles will ever end. But remember: With God, though your suffering is painful, your future is filled with eternal hope.
As Jesus declared to the apostle John, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades” (Revelation 1:17–18).
Jack Graham
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