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And after he had been beaten, bruised, pierced, worked, exhausted and nailed he died. And then they stabbed him to make sure. The very moment bef...
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And after he had been beaten, bruised, pierced, worked, exhausted and nailed he died. And then they stabbed him to make sure. The very moment before his death we read that in about the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"—which means, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mathew 27:46)
This word "sabachthani", it makes my skin tingle. Forsaken. It's perhaps the most hopeless word in the Bible. It is visceral. It is painful. It is hard to believe. The word brings on the connotations of abandonment, of desertion, of being left helpless, of being alone, of being cast out, of being completely forgotten. What is sabachthani is totally abandoned, utterly forsaken.
But here's the thing.
Jesus was actually quoting a song.
Interesting.....
At his moment of greatest torture, when he felt this sense of total abandonment and utter forsakenness he recalled the great song to be sung by the tune "Doe of the Dawn" in the Psalms. It was a song he knew well but that we must learn from him. Here it is:
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?
O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent." (Psalm 22:1b-2)
This is the beginning of the song. The start of a wailing question to God: why me? Why now? Why aren't you helping? But this song he knew so well does not end there.... It continues...
"Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel.
In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them." (Psalm 22:3-4)
You see, Jesus felt truly forsaken. He quotes this song and confirms it. But he also knew that despite this human feeling of forsakenness, the Father could be trusted. That "yet" in verse 3 turns around his forsakenness into deliverance. That's why Augustine says, "He gave up his life because he willed it, when he willed it, and as he willed it." Jesus knew the purpose of his death, he knew the timing of his death, and he knew the manner of his death.
This was no surprise, but this was also no picnic. He felt every truly horrible forsaken feeling common to man. But he also knew the truly beautiful fact that the Holy One enthroned deserved praise and would raise him from the Dead. What's more Jesus is pointing us to this sacred Psalm because of the multiple times it foreshadows what was happening to him at that moment: he was being scorned by men who mocked him and hurl insults (vs6-7). His bones were out of joint from the pull of his body on the nails (v14). His was thirsty so that his tongue stuck to the roof of his mouth (v15). Evil men surrounded him and pierced his hands and feet (v16). People were staring and gloating over him (v17). They had just divided his clothing by casting lots (v18). But God had not despised or distained the suffering of his affliction (v24). So he is going to fulfill his vows and drink the cup (v25). And because of it all the ends of the earth will bow down before him (v27). Future unborn generations will be told about Him and be saved (v31).
Jesus takes this opportunity on the cross to not simply cry out his forsakenness but to teach us the meaning of it.
Elvis was/is a spiritual being who had a divine life-purpose far beyond entertaining. He used his God-given talent of song and shared it with people as a means to spread the greater Light which exists within him into the world.
Those who knew him best say that Elvis was a deeply religious man and an avid reader who spent hours reading spiritual books, meditating and praying to find the true meaning of life. This spiritual side of Elvis is an often overlooked.
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