“And at three Jesus cried out with a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lemá sabachtháni?’ which is translated, ‘My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?’” (v. 34)

It’s a feeling you and I have never known and will never know. It’s a reality that sits at the center of propitiation, of atonement, of “Jesus in our place.”

You and I will never know the abandonment of God.

Why?

Because Jesus knew it for us.

He, with the full weight of human sin on His sinless account, took the judgment of the Father. He bore unto death all that disqualifies a man from God’s presence. He carried every separating thing until He was utterly separated by death.

Jesus knew the awful justice that sinners are owed and, with it, the exclusion they should know.

But they—but we—won’t know it.

Because Jesus knew it for us.

— Tyler