I remember one time as a very young boy of perhaps 5 or 6 years old, I became separated from my parents. I remember it vividly. It was in the old Southgate Mall in Muscle Shoals. I frantically looked around for them but could not see them anywhere. I began to cry and started toward the security guard standing nearby. Of course, I had not taken many steps until my mother came and rescued me. The feeling of being alone and forsaken was so great that I remember it today as a middle-aged man.
When I read Matthew 27:46, it reminds me of that separation.
“…Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?“
What exactly happened that dark day my LORD hung on the cross? The Scriptures, in Habakkuk 1:13, tell us that GOD is so holy that HE cannot look on sin.
“Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity:”
When Christ went to the cross he shouldered the sin of all mankind. In this instance of time, it was as though GOD turned his back on the SON.
So what does sin do? It separates us from GOD. Isaiah 59:1-2 reads, “Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”
It is as though when I have unforgiven sin in my life it stands between my GOD and me. There is something there between us that separates us. My GOD is too holy to look upon the sin and HIS face is hidden from me.
In seeking forgiveness the Psalmist in Psalms 51:9, 10, “Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”
The passage from Psalms 51 paints a picture of forgiveness as being a GOD takes that something between us (sin) and casts it behind HIM so his face is hidden from the sin instead of being hidden from me!
That forgiveness is found only in the blood of Christ. First and foremost be sure you are in Christ. Then in keeping with 1 John 1:7, be found walking in the light so that the blood will continually cleanse you from the sin.