“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest. Posterity will serve him; …future generations will be told about the Lord. They will proclaim his righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn; He has done it!” Psalm 22:1, 30-31

Dear Jesus, When you shouted David’s words from the cross you knew you were fulfilling this 1000 year old psalm and entering the worst part of death for all of us. In your anguish you proclaimed to us that you were “Doing it!” I love how this most quoted psalm ends, “He has done it!” All my sins, even the worst, are erased. All my guilt and shame is covered. All my fears of a horrible end have been stilled. I am forgiven because you have “Done it.” This message about your righteousness will keep me from thinking I am forsaken by God when I meet troubles because your cross reminds me that I will always be remembered by your Father as a child of his by grace. Don’t let me waste any precious time in my life by wondering if you and the Father really love me. I can see your love in Psalm 22 and the Gospels. Amen.

God’s Son was forsaken by God so that God could remember us fondly forever.