BLESSINGS OF THE CROSS - DAY 15
“I and My Father are one.” JOHN 10:30
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken
me?” (Matt. 27:46, NIV)
The words came from the
cracked lips and the crushed heart of God’s Son as His
tortured body and fevered mind were pushed to the outer
limits of endurance. For the first time in eternity, the
Father and Son were actually separated. They were
separated by all of your sins and my sins, which came
between Them.
Even when Jesus had been alone in a crowd, or alone
on a mountainside, or alone on the lake He had never
truly been alone! His Father had always been with Him.
He and His Father were so close they were One. To be
separated with a spiritual death that was worse than a
living nightmare. It was hell!
No one on this side of hell will ever know the
loneliness Jesus endured on the cross—in your place
and mine. When we claim the Lamb as our own sacrifice
for sin, we will never be separated from God, because
Jesus was.
A N N E G R A H A M L O T Z
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