the 7 word of Jesus from the cross: 5) My God my God why have you forsaken me?


7 words for 7 days
The seven words of Christ from the Cross.

5) My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

We are at the climax of the passion. Jesus has a doubt of faith? It seems so. He has become one like us in all things but sin and has some moments of doubt: this is not a sin. He wanted to carry on himself all our weaknesses so to conquer them with his love. But while carrying them they pull him down as low as possible. Even in this situation Jesus shows the strength of his love. Even in this deep moment he will stand in faith and will then add “In your hands I commend my spirit”. While in the desert the devil had tempted him to sell out his divinity in order to get power; in the garden of Gethsemane he tempted him to avoid the sufferance, now to wish that a final miracle would put an end to all this tragic events. And instead nothing is going to happen. Humanity must be purified in all its weaknesses so to be fully “divinized”. He speaks using the words of Psalm 21. To use the word of God does not mean that He is not suffering but it shows that even in this moments so dark Jesus is attached to prayer and to the word of God as the only remaining source of strength. Jesus may be weak in His emotions but He is strong in his faith and at the end faith will triumph. He never doubted about the existence of God but on the fact that God was taking care of him. It is not a temptation against faith but against love but his Love, the one with a capital L, wins against the emotions because even when he was not feeling anymore love, his Faith and his Love (which are always linked together) win.
How many times we too doubt that God cares for us. How many times we ask “why” and we do not see any answer. How many times we think to be unworthy of God's love, or we think that we are not important enough for Him.
But he will never abandon us, he only wants that our faith be strong and we wait for Him with love.
From the words of Saint Luigi Orione: “In order to conquer for God and to win others over, we need, first, to live are intense life of God within ourselves, to have inside us a dominating faith; a great ideal the denial of ourselves for others should be the flame that burns and shines in us, setting our lives on fire in an idea and a sacred love which is stronger.” … “We are intoxicated with charity, fools of the Cross of the Christ crucified”.


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