Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?

Matthew 27:46 NIV
About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" (which means "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?").

Yet not as I will, but as you will.
The very essence of Jesus' cry at the Father saying. Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? is out of his pain and sufferings as a complete human being undergone such a pain in his emotions and feelings. In fact even before the Crucifixion, Jesus cried to the Father God saying if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.

Matthew 26:39 NIV Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." 


Being in Anguish, he prayed more earnestly:
The very nature of human is to resist the pain, if the skin is exposed to the hot, say Fire, it would automatically tries to retrieve. Jesus being a God manifested in human flesh, overcame all the temptations, but the pain on the cross was as same as any other human would have suffered. Because God's wrath on human was poured at the cross on Jesus - his Son for the remission of our sins. Jesus cried saying if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. then he being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly

Luke 22:44 NIV

And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

How can Jesus being God himself call unto Father for help? The same question or kind of question was asked by those who passed by....

Matthew 27:39-40New International Version (NIV)

39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40 and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!”

In fact the first two temptations of the satan was asking Jesus, "If you are the Son of God". Jesus is the Son of God and these questions are to test and to tempt.

There are a number of questions that comes across, some like this one. If God all powerful, great,.. let him create a huge sphere... so huge that he can't carry... Then they ask "If he creates such a huge sphere that no one can carry, he can also not carry. So he his not that powerful. If he carries that means he cannot create such a huge sphere.

The first and the foremost aspect in this question is that, God doesn't want to create anything like that for a reason, he is multidimensional. He passes through time and space.

The temple that Jesus spoke was that of his body.

John 2:19-21New King James Version (NKJV)

19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

20 Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

The Way of God:
The Way of God is different,  Isaiah 55:8 NIV
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.


Jesus says we are his Friends:

John 15:13-15English Standard Version (ESV) 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant[b] does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, forall that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

but when we are righteous and have done according to God's will, he should say   ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”

In the first instance when Jesus says Friends it is from the God's point of view on us. The second view is how we have to say to God when we have done his will. Jesus demonstrated this through his life and his words at the cross reminds us of this words which he has spoken earlier in his life, as to how one has to conduct, how one has to look at the thing that God looks at. God loves us so much that he says Friends, he died for our sins and rose on third day. Are we the Unworthy servants?

Luke 17 New International Version (NIV)

Sin, Faith, Duty

17 Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come. 2 It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little onesto stumble. 3 So watch yourselves.

“If your brother or sister[a] sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. 4 Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.”

5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”

6 He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.

7 “Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’? 8 Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’? 9 Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? 10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”

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Wait On The Lord

Psalm 27:14New International Version (NIV)

14 Wait for the Lord;
    be strong and take heart
    and wait for the Lord.

Waiting for the Lord means giving him the complete access in our life. It is trusting him more. Because if we do not wait, we take things for granted and do it on our ways and the end will be miserable. But if we wait for the Lord, he will do his will and it will be a miracle.

Be Patient with God and Others:

Always look for the sign, ask God if it is his will for anything. Being Patient with God is one of the most important aspect in spiritual life. Being Patient with one another is also very important, never run into conclusion of Judgment. 

Ephesians 4:2 NIV Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

Wait for the Lord for the renewal of Strength like that of an Eagle:

Isaiah 40:31(NKJV)

31 But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.

Wait for the Lord for his Miracles:

Mark 4:26-27 (NIV) ..."This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how."

1 Corinthians 3:6 NIV I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.

James 5:11 NIV

As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

James 5:7-12New International Version (NIV)

Patience in Suffering

7 Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.8 You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near. 9 Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!

10 Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11 As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

12 Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple “Yes” or “No.” Otherwise you will be condemned.

On Holiness

1 Peter 1:16 NIV
for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

Many a times in the Bible prophets and Jesus say we are to be Holy. We are to be Holy not because to make God Holy, he is Holy and hence he says, "Be holy, because I am Holy".

Ephesians 1:4 NIV

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love

Christ is the Head of the Church, as he is the Leader. He expects the Church, i.e. he expects us to be Holy.

Ephesians 5:25-27New International Version (NIV)

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

We need to be careful with Holiness.

Matthew 7:6New Living Translation (NLT)

6 “Don’t waste what is holy on people who are unholy. Don’t throw your pearls to pigs! They will trample the pearls, then turn and attack you.

Psalm 99 English Standard Version (ESV)

The Lord Our God Is Holy

99 The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble!
    He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!
2 The Lord is great in Zion;
    he is exalted over all the peoples.
3 Let them praise your great and awesome name!
    Holy is he!
4 The King in his might loves justice.[a]
    You have established equity;
you have executed justice
    and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt the Lord our God;
    worship at his footstool!
    Holy is he!

6 Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
    Samuel also was among those who called upon his name.
    They called to the Lord, and he answered them.
7 In the pillar of the cloud he spoke to them;
    they kept his testimonies
    and the statute that he gave them.

8 O Lord our God, you answered them;
    you were a forgiving God to them,
    but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
9 Exalt the Lord our God,
    and worship at his holy mountain;
    for the Lord our God is holy!

Isaiah 6:3 NIV

And they were calling to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory."

On Knowing His Love and Responding

1 John 4:19 NIV
We love because he first loved us.

Know his love through Jesus Christ, as a person, as a sacrifice he gave himself - His act of sacrificing himself for us is the greatest part of love....

John 3:16 NIV
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Compare - No love is greater than his....

John 15:13 NIV
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.

Measure - length, breath,

Ephesians 3:14-21New International Version (NIV)

A Prayer for the Ephesians

14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

it will increase in knowledge of God, the person of Christ who will transform our lives....

2 Peter 3:17-18New International Version (NIV)

17 Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position.18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.

On Responding:

If we know his Love for us and if we Love him with whole heart, whole mind, whole soul and strength. We have to acknowledge it.

As Sheep we are to listen him and follow him:

John 10:22-30New International Version (NIV)

Further Conflict Over Jesus’ Claims

22 Then came the Festival of Dedication[a] at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade. 24 The Jews who were there gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

25 Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[b]; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.30 I and the Father are one.”

If we Love him, we should feed the sheep:

John 21:15-25New International Version (NIV)

Jesus Reinstates Peter

15 When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.”

Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”

16 Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”

He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”

Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”

17 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”

Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.”

Jesus said, “Feed my sheep. 18 Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”19 Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, “Follow me!”

20 Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”) 21 When Peter saw him, he asked, “Lord, what about him?”

22 Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.” 23 Because of this, the rumor spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?”

24 This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.

25 Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

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