Let the people praise Thee, O God; let all the people praise Thee. - Psalms 67:3
AMEN KAYAK!
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
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"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
- Psalm 22:1
We here behold the Saviour in the depth of his sorrows. No other place so
well shows the griefs of Christ as Calvary, and no other moment at Calvary
is so full of agony as that in which his cry rends the air-"My God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me?" At this moment physical weakness was
united with acute mental torture from the shame and ignominy through which
he had to pass; and to make his grief culminate with emphasis, he suffered
spiritual agony surpassing all expression, resulting from the departure of
his Father's presence. This was the black midnight of his horror; then it
was that he descended the abyss of suffering. No man can enter into the
full meaning of these words.
Some of us think at times that we could cry, "My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me?" There are seasons when the brightness of our Father's
smile is eclipsed by clouds and darkness; but let us remember that God
never does really forsake us.
It is only a seeming forsaking with us, but in Christ's case it was a
real forsaking.
We grieve at a little withdrawal of our Father's love; but the real
turning away of God's face from his Son, who shall calculate how deep the
agony which it caused him?
In our case, our cry is often dictated by unbelief: in his case, it was
the utterance of a dreadful fact, for God had really turned away from him
for a season. O thou poor, distressed soul, who once lived in the sunshine
of God's face, but art now in darkness, remember that he has not really
forsaken thee. God in the clouds is as much our God as when he shines
forth in all the lustre of his grace; but since even the thought that he
has forsaken us gives us agony, what must the woe of the Saviour have been
when he exclaimed, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
C.H.SPURGEON.
SOLI DEO GLORIA!
Amen to your wonderful prayer, kayak.
Heavenly Father, we thank You for all the blessings You have given us. We thank You for President Bush, his family, and his administration. We pray for their health and safety as they all strive to work for our great country.
We pray for the military men and women who are serving our great country for our freedom and peace. We especially pray for their families and hope they can all be reunited soon.
We ask these blessings in Your Son's Precious Name, Amen.