Saying Four: Godforsaken
Then about that time Jesus shouted, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you deserted me?"
Mark 15:34
Not a word we use very often: Godforsaken. Is there a time and place when even God has had enough of us, when even the immortal invisible needs to take some personal time.
Was God now hiding from Jesus... or was it just that Jesus lost sight of God? When it feels like that, what’s the difference?
And if you believe that Jesus, somehow, was also God, this is a kind of self-abandonment - God taking leave of himself, forgetting himself. A kind of madness.
As darkness falls, confusion rises. Voices nearby drop away, disappear. Spectators lose interest. Now just the silent sound of hearts breaking, hope evaporating.
"Hello?" No reply.
"Anyone there?" Nothing answers.
Just you and nothing. Forsaken.
Jesus Christ abandoned to his fate in the middle of history. Foolishness. The mad epicentre of all things. Losing it. Always losing it. You have to lose your life in order to find it. He had said.
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3 comments:
I guess I think of it as the God part leaving....the human part still there and that's when he felt the anguish just like we do when we distance ourselves from God
I do use the word godforsaken..usually in reference to an undesirable place and I'm at my wits end
I used that word a lot when I lived in Arizona - usually describing Arizona...
Jesus was the only person to walk the earth who was 200% of something. 100% man and 100% God. I often think about the reasons why he said what he said. Everyday I could think of a diffent and great reason.
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