There was only one person, and one point in the whole of time where God turned His back on someone. That was his own son, Jesus the Christ. So often in our lives we shout in our soul "God, why have you forsaken me? Where are you?" This may seem harsh... But how dare us!
I truly believe if God were to turn his back on us, even for planck time (planck time is the shortest possible time, it is 10-43 of a second; for those who don't know what that means write a a decimal point then write 43 zeros and put a 1 at the end) we would simply die. In the 12th chapter of Job, it says,"10In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind." and in the 34th chapter, verses 14-15 it says, "14 If it were his (God's) intention and he withdrew his spirit and breath,15 all humanity would perish together and mankind would return to the dust." You see if God turned his back on us we would die, he gives life to both the saved and the unsaved!
God never turns his back on us, though occasionally he will withdraw. Now listen to me, this is different than turning his back. Its like when a Father is teaching his child how to ride a bike, he pushes you down the side walk and lets go so you can do it on your own. That's how it is with God! He withdraws to show us that we can do it, and to teach us to trust his judgement. AND SO OFTEN we like the kid who realizes their dad is not pushing anymore, we freak out and crash!
When God withdraws from us, it is to grow us. We are always asking for God to grow us, and then when he withdraws to challenge us and grow us, we freak out.
You have to realize the only thing that made God turn his back on Jesus was that Jesus BECAME ALL OF SIN not just my sin... not the sin that had already happened, BUT ALL SIN what will be done, what has been done, what you're doing now that is sin! ALL of that sin, in and around one man, one person. God didn't turn away because he didn't love Jesus.. or because He wanted to be mean.. he turned away out of agony... and out of His love for us... He turned away from Christ because that is what sin does... it causes seperation between US.. and God. And because Christ took that on, we can know God.. and we take that for granted.. and ask Him "where are you?". How dare we? We should be asking ourselves... where am I.. Am I seeking God as deeply as I should.. am I going to give up just because the tingles of my salvation is gone? The only one who could ask God, "Eli, eli, lema sabachthani" was Christ on the Cross... taking our burdens on His shoulders.
God bless
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