My God My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

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 something revealed. Jesus didn’t come to erase what came before—he pointed back to it, even in his deepest suffering.

And the suffering is real.

Not theoretical. Not distant.

But human—physical, emotional, spiritual.

I know something about that kind of pain.

There was a time in my life when I was in deep suffering. I had been in prostitution, and it began with force and exploitation. For a long time, I believed that was all I deserved. That pain was just part of who I was.

But something changed.

I began to understand that pain is not the goal.

Pain is not what we were made for.

Pain is not from God.

Pain is part of a broken world—but it is not the final word.

God wants us free.

He wants to heal our hearts—and sometimes even our bodies.

He calls us out of suffering, not into it.

This has been the direction from the very beginning.

In Genesis 1:29, humanity is given food without harm:

“I give you every seed-bearing plant… they will be yours for food.”

And the prophets point forward to a restored world:

Isaiah 11:6–9 says:

“The wolf shall live with the lamb…

The lion will eat straw like the ox…

They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain.”

In the beginning—and in the end—there is peace.

God also says:

“I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” (Hosea 6:6 - Mika 6.6-8 -  Mathew 9.13)

The direction has always been the same:

From the beginning → through the prophets → through Jesus

Toward peace.

Toward mercy.

Toward restoration.

And the story does not end at the cross.

Jesus did not only suffer and die—

he rose again.

He is alive.

A living God.✨

And that means something for us.🌱

Just as he rose, we are not meant to stay in our old lives, our old pain, our old identity. We are called into new life—into healing, into peace, into restoration.

Not just spiritually, but in how we live, how we love, and even how we see the world and creation itself.

Back to what was written.

Forward to what is coming.

In the beginning, the lion and the lamb lived in peace—feeding as the ox.

And so it shall be in the end.

Amen.

Pain is real.

But it is not the goal.

New life is ✨🌱💦

Natalia Magdalena the VEGANgelist 

Check out the Song on YouTube about this calling 🙏 🌱✨🌈🦁🐑🥖🍇 

https://youtu.be/B4bI1Ew2dAQ?is=B-Mqx12xjOCLeXjO