March 2002

 As Jesus died, He cried out,

“My God, My God, Why have you forsaken Me?”

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

The above words are undoubtedly the most mysterious in the whole Bible. It’s not because that we cannot grasp what they mean. Some say that the words reflect the pained surprise of a God-intoxicated man, who finally realized that God would not lift Him from the cross. But the New Testament gives us a better explanation. Paul says that Jesus was made “sin for us” (2 Cor 5:21). In a moment of time, the flood of human sin was released and crashed with awful force upon and into the son of God.

In that moment, when the son of God became sin for us, the Father looked away. For the first and only time in all eternity, from the bond of the unity of Trinity, Father and Son were brutally torn apart. So now we do know what the words mean.

What we can never understand is what the experience they represent meant to Father and to Son. We can never grasp the depths of Jesus’ anguish, or sense the waves of pain that echoed out through all eternity. We can never envision the deep scars that sin engraved on sinlessness.

All we can do is stand at the foot of the cross, hear that cry, and realize that what Jesus did for us cost Him more than we can begin to imagine.

  And say, “Thank You, Lord.”

The best thanks that we can give is not framed in words, but in our lives. As we celebrate the lent and the passion week lets thank God for His love and compassion toward us a give our loves into His hands for His glory.

Hallelujah

Yours in His Love,

Thomas Chandy Achen

 

The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but My kindness shall not depart from you. 

--Isaiah 54:10 

Passion Week Schedule

March 2002

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1 Sev San Prayer YF Area Bible Study	2
3 Sun S Teachers YF Meeting	4	5	6 EM Prayer	7	Sev San Prayer 8 Young Couples Mtg YF Area Bible Study	9 YF Bible Study YF Pot-Luck Dinner
10 YS Meeting YF Meeting	11	12	13 EM Prayer	14	15 Sev San Prayer YF Area Bible Study	16 YS Regional Mtg
17 YF Meeting	18	19	20 EM Prayer	21	22 Sev San Prayer YF Area Bible Study	23 YF Bible Study
24 YS Meeting YF Meeting	25	26	27 EM Prayer	28	29 Sev San Prayer YF Area Bible Study	30 YF One-Day Conf.
31 YF Meeting

Key: EM=Edavaka Mission, Sev San= Sevika Sanghom,