"My God, my god, why have you forsaken me?"
I think we’ve all thought, if not cried out, something along these lines. Confused and hurt that God seems to have abandoned us to our circumstances - to our pain and frustration. Some of us cry out like this at the drop of a hat!

But here Jesus cries out in acute awareness that God has indeed abandoned him - left him hanging, literally - when he of all people should have been spared such treatment. And Jesus experiences this so that we might never really know what it means to be forsaken by God. We think we do, but we don’t. And we never need to know, thanks to this moment when Jesus experienced it for us. Thank you Jesus! Help us remember what it cost you for us to be spared, that we might always be grateful for your loving sacrifice.