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“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Was one of Jesus’ seven words on the cross. As we review the events of that Good Friday-an ironic term when you consider the day commemorates a death-we could come to the conclusion that this execution was a gross miscarriage of justice, a travesty of politics, or an innocent caught up in a power struggle.

But let us look closer and see, as we’ve seen this whole Lenten season, that Jesus’ death was actually A PART OF THE PLAN. Jesus willingly took on our punishment. He was forsaken so that we wouldn’t be forsaken. He died so that we wouldn’t die. And he rose again on the third day so that we too would be raised from the dead.

Jesus willingly took on our punishment. He was forsaken so that we wouldn’t be forsaken. At times in our lives we have felt forsaken. Maybe it happened when our parents left for the night and had a baby-sitter watch us.

It might have been the time our “first love” informed us he or she didn’t believe the relationship was going to go anywhere. Maybe we were in a store as a child and wandered away and soon found ourselves separated from our parents and in a panic sought them out. Remember that feeling? Maybe even now at times we go through trials and cry out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

By  JOHN L. HOH, JR.

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