 
              Forsaken for a Reason
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            Echoing David in Psalm 22, Jesus cried out on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” In that haunting cry, Christ identifies with our despair and bridges the gap between God and us not only theologically, in the Atonement, but emotionally—between our suffering and God’s, between our agonizing cries and those of God’s Son.
        
    
  
 
                 
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
           
               
               
              