At noon, darkness fell across the whole land until three o'clock. 

At about three o'clock, Jesus called out with a loud voice,

"Eli, 

Eli, 

lema sabachthani?"

which means 

"My God, 

my God, 

why have you abandoned me?"

Matthew 27:45-46 NLT

Not only abandoned by his friends and family, his community and the State, the human Jesus experienced all the worst that humanity can experience.

And the divine Jesus, experienced abandonment from the Eternal, the relationship that had been Forever.

Yet God.

Yet God was at work bringing about a redemptive story, a victory over all the abandonment stories, especially the biggest of them, death itself.

Saturday can seem dark.

It is. 

And it's not the end.

Not the last word. 

#lovewithoutmeasure

#redemptivestrands #hopeishere