What Was It Like For The Father?
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An Easter Message
What Was It Like For The Father?“If I judge, My judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent Me.” John 8:16 KJV “He that sent Me is with Me: the Father hath not left Me alone; for I do always those things that please Him.” John 8:29 “Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave Me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.” John 16:32 Three times in the Gospel of John, Jesus affirmed that His Father had not left Him alone, because He and the Father are One, and the Father was always with Him. Jesus, as the perfect Holy One of God, always did the things that pleased the Father. Nevertheless, His Father sent Him into the world to endure the time when He would be forsaken of His Father. As Jesus hung on the cross, it became dark from noon till three PM, when He cried out those words from Psalm 22, saying, “‘Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?’ That is to say, ‘My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?’” (Mt. 27:46). We realize just how agonizing it was for the Son, from the contrast between this terrible cry and His earlier affirmations that the Father was always with Him. But what was it like for the Father to forsake His only begotten Son? By Tom Steere By Thee, O God invited, We look unto the Son, In whom Thy soul delighted, Who all Thy will hath done; And by the one chief treasure, Thy bosom freely gave, Thine own pure love we measure, Thy willing mind to save. By Mary Bowley Peters