The God Forsaken Savior

One author explains the aloneness of Christ is this way, “It was not the solitude of the hermit or the monk; he ever lived among his fellow-men; not the solitude of pride, sullenly refusing all sympathy and aid; not the solitude of selfishness, creating around its icy center a cold, bleak, barren wilderness; not the solitude of sickly sentimentality, forever crying out that it can find no one to understand or appreciate; but is was the solitude of a pure, holy, heavenly spirit, into all his deeper thoughts there was not a single human being near Him, or around Him who could enter; with all his deeper feelings there was not one who could sympathize; not one could comprehend. Spiritually, and all throughout, the loneliest man that ever lived was Jesus Christ.”

Yet as lonely as was Christ earthly life, He was never alone. The Father had always been with Him. In John 8 He disputes with the Pharisees and twice in response to their attacks he states, “I am not alone, the Father never leaves me.” John 16:32 Jesus as Christ moves out to the Garden of Gethsemane and then to the cross he tells his disciples, “ Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.”

And then on the cross everything changed and for the first time Jesus was truly alone.