My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Daily Light Devotions - March 6 - Evening

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" 1

But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 2

but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification. 3

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 4

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 5

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 6

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us--for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"-- 7
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1 Matt 27:46;
2 Isa 53:5,6,8,10;
3 Rom 4:24,25;
4 1 Pet 3:18;
5 1 Pet 2:24;
6 2 Cor 5:21;
7 Gal 3:13