Matthew 27:46 (KJV)
[SUP]46 [/SUP]And about the ninth hour (3 PM) Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Psalm 22:1-2 (KJV)
[SUP]1 [/SUP]My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
[SUP]2 [/SUP]O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
In the course of checking how the Hebrew language read concerning “My God, My God”, it was astonishing to me that the first “My God” (Eli) in Hebrew, is the same word as “Me.” I surmise that these words “My God, My God” needed to be repeated for the sake of addressing both Christ and God Almighty. Remembering the prayer Jesus offered up before His arrest, I believe that the cup He asked to pass from Him was not the cross, but the separation from His Father that He knew was inevitable. Being isolated from your parents during the worst times in a person’s life, is likened unto a military man facing death without family or friends. That thought is literally horrible in anyone’s imagination.
All I can say at this point is that there was such a devastating separation at the cross, that one must consider the son of man being separated from the Son of God, along with being separated from His own Father because of our sins He was dying with. Recognizing that Jesus endured so much more than we (believers in Him) will ever be able to comprehend, I thought it necessary to mention, and consider.