The words that Jesus uttered when he suffered so grievously on the cross. Scholars have always attempted to define what actually that Lord Jesus meant when he uttered this words when he suffered on the cross.
Hence my take on the issue. Imagine yourself suffering so immensely that every ounce of strength was being compelled from the body to just survive. Or to die for the faith in martyrdom.
I believe that God the Father was so agonised, so broken and so in grief that he looked away in such utter sorrow from the sufferings of his only son. Jesus looking towards his Father who was so sorrowful, cried out "Father.....do not forsake me...." What he actually meant was to tell his Father, "Don't look away in sorrow, look towards me, give me strength to suffer this agony, the Passion which I must undertake. To attain and go through. God's reaction was swift. He looked back immediately towards his son. And hence sending his love, his urgings, his hopes towards his son.
Jesus did not say that God has abandoned him. He only told his Father not to look away in grief, but to look towards him and give him strength to suffer his Passion on the Cross.
Lord Jesus, Brother Jesus of the Cross. Holy God so suffered for his people.
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