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My God My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

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My God My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me? That's how we feel sometimes.. And God understand this feeling . When Jesus cried out on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46), many people hear doubt. Some take it as a reason not to believe— “If he is God, why would he say that?” I used to wrestle with that too. But those words come directly from Psalm 22:1: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me?” This psalm was written around a thousand years before Jesus. And it doesn’t end in despair—it moves through suffering into trust, and finally into hope and restoration. So when Jesus speaks these words, he is not just expressing pain—though the pain is real. He is also pointing back to something already written. Something prophetic. He is placing himself inside that story. This changed how I began to see it. Because instead of disproving who he is, it can be understood as fulfillment. Not something new, but someth...

Barrabas Means Son Of The Father 🌱✨

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Barrabas Means Son Of The Father 🌱✨ Drawing by Dmitrijs Botvinjevs that inspired this blog today  3.april 2026 🇷🇺🇵🇱🇩🇰👇 There is a moment in the Gospel story that has always struck me deeply. The crowd stands before Pilate, and two men are presented: Jesus, and Barabbas. One is innocent, the other guilty. And yet the crowd cries out for Barabbas to be released. But then I learned something that made this scene even more powerful. The name Barabbas comes from Aramaic: Bar means son Abba means father So Bar-Abba literally means “son of the father.” In that moment, the people chose one “son of the father” to go free, while the true Son of the Father took his place. Jesus stood there, silently accepting what was happening. He stepped into the place of the guilty. He took the place of Barabbas. And in a deeper sense, He took our place too. “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” Jesus did not come to continue a system of endless sacrifice. He came to fulfill it. He becam...