Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?

John 5:30 (KJV)
“I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”
Thirty years the sun came up and went down; “And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel” (Luke 1:80). His Father’s voice b...
ecame so evident within Himself there was no tarring them apart. Jesus did not see Himself alone, every move He made, every word He spoke was under His Father’s directive; Jesus was totally dependent upon Father God.
Waxed meant He was empowered in His spirit. Every manifestation in the physical was a result of this waxing in the spirit; He had developed a culture of dependency.
His Father’s voice being present meant the Kingdom was present, all power in the heavens available in the midst of this dependency.
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Mark 15:34)
Connecting this to His culture of dependency, can you feel the pain?

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