Never Forsaken

Psalm 22:1-3 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

Being forsaken is one of the deepest pains to cut the human soul. The agony of rejection and aloneness pierces deep within the inner being. Our God has promised that He would never leave us nor forsake us, yet the psalmist David, who was a man after God’s own heart, cried out in his feelings of forsakenness. And Jesus, God’s only Son, uttered these same prophetic words as He hung between heaven and hell crying out, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” No more painful words have ever been spoken. Has God forgotten His promise or even worse has He been found unfaithful? God forbid. God is faithful. His promise to never to leave us nor forsake us was made to His redeemed children and not to Christ. Jesus was forsaken that we would never be. There will be times in our Christian pilgrimage that we may feel forsaken, but our Heavenly Father is always there. He may even lead us to these deserts of trial. These are times of testing. These dark times are not for us to test God’s faithfulness but for Him to test our faithfulness. Will we still trust Him even when we cannot see Him? Will we say as the psalmist in these tough times, “Yet, You are holy” which confirmed in his spirit “My God can do no wrong.”