Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Mark 15:6-15, 25-26, 33-39
by: Joy Choquette.
Forsaken. That sums up these passages well, doesn’t it? When you see that word, what images spring to mind? Desolation? Darkness? A single, solitary figure on a lonely plain? Jesus was forsaken—not only by His friends and followers—but by God: His holy Father, the life-giver, the great I AM. Because of the incredible sacrifice that Jesus made, we will never undergo the same heart-breaking experience ourselves. He took it all—our pain, our sins, our punishment—as His own. Today, we can be grateful to serve a God that loves us so much that He gave up everything for our sake.