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Jesus and Abba at the Cross

By Bill Gaultiere © 2010

Where was God the Father when Jesus was being crucified? Where is God when you and I are being mistreated?

We know that Jesus cried out on the cross the prayer of David in Psalm 22:1: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Jesus felt abandoned by the Father in the midst of carrying the awfulness of sin and being betrayed by his friends as he was being tortured to death. But did the Father reject Jesus? Does he reject you and I in our suffering? In our sin?

Read the rest of Psalm 22, which Jesus may have prayed on the cross. It shows us Jesus [...]

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