In dying all was revealed to him, but alive Jesus like us saw with mortal eyes, felt the pain of mortal flesh, and knew the confusion of imperfect mortal understanding. How terrible that must have been and how alone he must have felt. But in that moment of his bitter railing he must have felt betrayed and completely abandoned by his father, a father he’d always believed loved him deeply and absolutely. I know of no darker moment in the Bible than the moment Jesus in his agony on the cross cries out, ‘Father, why have you forsaken me?’ Darker even than his death not long after because in death Jesus at last gave himself over fully to the divine will of God. Not the glorious resurrection that we celebrate on Easter Sunday but the darkness that came before. “It isn’t Easter,” he said, “but this week has caused me to think a lot about the Easter story.
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