The Most Forsaken One

People forsake their pets, their friends, even their family members, when they decide that the cost of friendship, love and affection are too great.

It is cruel and wrong to abandon those we have a duty to love. God's Word specifically requires us to love one another and bear the burdens of each other.

God never abandons His people. Indeed, the Lord Jesus had every reason to abandon us, for the cost He bore to uphold His love was incalculable - the cruel death at Calvary!

For all the aching sorrow that abandonment causes in this world, it is the sad truth that our God is the most abandoned One. His entire creation rejected Him and turned against Him.

How often the Old Testament foretells, and then rebukes, the forsaking of God by His people!

Our Lord Jesus Himself was also abandoned when He came into this world. His people largely rejected Him, and even His disciples forsook Him and fled when He faced arrest and execution.

Yet God's response is to draw His people back to Himself! If it is wrong to abandon a pet or a friend or a family member, imagine the crime of abandoning and rebelling against God our Creator!

It is a monstrous crime that cannot be forgotten. But oh, it was punished in our Lord Jesus in our place!

Imagine it: the one who had never betrayed or left His Father, was held responsible for our cruel abandonment of God, and He was abandoned by the Father on the cross in punishment for our crimes!

Our Lord Jesus empathizes with us when we are abandoned by friends: He knows all too well what it feels like.

We must be very careful never to turn away from the Savior or ignore Him for the least moment, for He loves us so!