At noon, darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock. At about three o’clock, Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means “My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?” Then Jesus shouted out again, and He released His spirit. (Matthew 27:45-46, 50)
 

Our blessed Savior tasted all kinds of pain on his way to the cross and while he hung there, the last pain he experienced just before he died was the pain of fatherhood abandonment.

It was so dark around him. Did it also feel so dark when your father abandoned you? Jesus shouted twice in a loud voice and released his deep painful son-ship cry, “why”? I don’t get it, I am supposed to be your son, you can’t let go. A father-son relationship must not be broken at all. Jesus shouted twice in a loud voice and gave up his spirit so fast because he could tolerate anything but this. Abandonment kills you!

Maybe, in some way, you too have experienced your father’s abandonment but you didn’t cry out loudly although you are suffering from the pain of rejection that your destructive lifestyle shouts it clearly. Drown in drugs, in alcoholism, in pornography, in failures? Maybe you doubt everyone? Maybe you are a workaholic, a perfectionist? You gave up on doing life healthily and the way you are living is nothing but a loud cry hoping that your father hears your big unanswerable WHY!

We live in a fallen world and our fathers raised us up the best way they know how. Our leaders, our pastors, our friends and even you and I are the same but the heavenly Father is the only perfect dad in the universe.

It was the huge penalty of our sins that separated him from his son Jesus for a while so you and I will never experience in Christ his abandonment. Can you imagine the terror of that moment when the perfect pleasurable eternal unity between Jesus and his Father was broken just for you and me? If there is one dad who really wants you so badly, it is the heavenly Father!

There’s nothing that can separate you from your heavenly Father because Jesus paid the price of abandonment once and forever. Today if you are in Christ, hear the heavenly Father declaring over you his glorious eternal unbreakable promise: “You are accepted in the beloved and I will never leave you nor forsake you”.

Glory to God
Tony Francis

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My name is Tony Francis, I am from Beirut, Lebanon, Middle East. I am 32 years old and I am seasoned in the love of God for years. I am grounded in the scriptures and had a license degree in biblical studies from MTI, school of ministry by Donnie Shaffer. I am a member of Abundant Life Church. I love theology but it always sounded lifeless to me without experience. When I started experiencing the prophetic in my early years of walking with God I was changed forever. The prophetic made Jesus so real to me and to the world around me. I can’t count the times I ministered to people, glory to God it was awesome! People’s feedback blessed me so much because I discovered how much God knows each person by name in details.