Matthew 27:45-50 and Psalm 22:1-11; 29-
On this second Sunday in Lent we anticipate our devotional reading this coming Friday, the Fifteenth Day of Lent, when we will read from Psalm 22. The first line of this Psalm is very familiar to most of us because Jesus cried out these exact words when he was crucified. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” These are the heart-wrenching words of our Savior who was forsaken by the Father in our place, so that we might never be forsaken. Unlike Jesus who knew all too well the utter darkness and pain of being abandon by his own Father in the hour of death, we His children, through faith in Jesus, can say, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.” Jesus our Good Shepherd has promised, “I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” He will never leave us nor forsake us!