Choice Gleanings

August 23

DAILY READINGS: 2 Samuel 4-5; Micah 7; Romans 12

And they all forsook him, and fled. Mark:14:50And they all forsook him, and fled.
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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Psalm:22:1(To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.) My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
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On the cross the Lord experienced total abandonment. He knew genuine loneliness and was truly the Man of Sorrows. No one desired to be identified with Him and our holy God had to turn away so that Christ could be an offering for sin. His work completed, He rose from the dead the third day. Today each believer is identified with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection (Rom:6:3-4 [3] Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? [4] Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
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