Mark 15:34:  “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

When I first read this scripture, I wondered why Jesus felt that God was forsaking Him.  Wasn’t He giving His life willingly to the Father?  Didn’t He just say on Gethsemane that He would do whatever the Father wanted Him to do?

 

Some of these things confused me as I was growing up……And not only these but many many things in the Bible confused me and I wondered whether they truly lined up.

 

After years of examination and comparing and reading and questioning, I came to a few conclusions:  This was the most complicated and incredible and powerful and life-changing book that I have ever read.

  • Whoever wrote this book had access to information that none of us could get on our own.
  • Whoever wrote this book was able to predict the future.
  • Whoever wrote this book was able to make people in different generations and cultures come to agreement—incredibly miraculous agreement.

 

How did I come to this conclusion?  Well part of this conclusion occured when I stumbled onto the 22nd Psalm.  When I read it, I realized that Jesus, when He was being excruciatingly tortured, was reciting the Bible.  And the verse He was reciting was written 1000 years before by a guy named David.

 

And this David…..was writing about something that made no sense to him when he wrote it…….it was like someone “on the outside was” forming together a master plan to save us.

 

After HUNDREDS OF THESE discoveries after reading the Bible, I have come to this conclusion:  God made a plan to send Jesus.  And, 1000 years later, on a cross on Calvary, this Jesus carries out that plan and recites the verse that God told David to write it in Psalms 1000 years prior:

Psalm 22:1 “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

 

Read the 22nd Psalm.  It is the story of Jesus crucifixion written 1000 years prior and it is one of hundreds of scriptures that were written hundreds or thousands of years prior to Jesus that describe Jesus and His coming to redeem our lives.

 

Test me on this and investigate this matter.  This is either a conspiracy over thousands of years contrived by people who did not know each other OR a plan from on high to redeem a broken human race……and I have staked my claim on the latter.  As a mathematician I can see no other probability that could make sense—-and so yes—I am fanatical about it.

 

If you have read this book with anything but utter amazement and respect you have, in MY OPINION, not given it the honor that it is due.  Because my conclusion is this:  It is the Word of God……an absolutely magnificent playbook that we should be reading every day to turn us in the right direction…….

 

And we owe it to our world to show IT……..and HIM to them.

 

In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J