My God, My God, Why...?

Now the earth was formless and empty; darkness was over the surface of the deep...(Genesis 1:2)

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread over Egypt - darkness that can be felt."  So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. (Exodus 10:21,22)

From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.  About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" (Matthew 27:45,46)

Darkness...

     heavy,

       crushing,

         so thick it can be felt...

A loud voice crying out...

     piercing the darkness,

       "My God, My God, why?

         Why have You forsaken Me?"

From the depths of His soul Jesus cried out to God.
It is the only time in the gospels He did not use the intimate term 'Father'. 

"Why have You forsaken Me?"

It wasn't a whisper.

It was a scream.

The full weight of sin - all of it - on His shoulders.

My God, My God...Why?

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son,

that whoever believes in Him shall not perish

but have eternal life."

John 3:16