My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?  By Jacqueline Pugh.

Have you ever been in a spiritual desert?  Or a valley that seems to get deeper and darker?  Have you felt as if your prayers have been deactivated?  You read your Bible daily, go through devotional after devotional, attend church services, but still life feels barren and alone?

“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

Matthew 27:46 KJV

Why did Jesus cry this out to His Father?  What did He mean?  We can deduce that God had to look away from His Son the moment He absorbed our sins.  Christ absorbed our sins.  This can be said it is the only time God looked away.

God is always with us, it is written, “Do not be afraid, for I am with you.  I will gather you and your children from east and west.”

Isaiah 43:5 NLT

He says He is ALWAYS with us!  Even though you don’t feel God or you don’t think He hears you, He is still with you.

Understand that we are the problem.

We become traumatized when God does not answer prayers how we expect Him to answer.  God answers prayer the way He does so that His glory is fulfilled, not our happiness.  When we get to this point, we become “ye of little faith” and begin to complain to God about how He is missing in our life.

I have been in this place for two years and little by little, God is showing me what I lack.  One night I cried to God why has thou forsaken me and He told me to

“Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation.  I will be honored throughout the world.” Psalms 46:10 NLT

I realized that I had been busying myself with things that did not involve or honor God, drifting further away from Him.  I was wandering in a deserted place on my own and when I looked up, God was not in my visual field.

How do you get back to God?  Well, at first you should recommit yourself to Him.  Be still, pray and fast to regain hearing.  Exercise your faith, for faith is the love language of God.

“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

Hebrews 11:6 KJV

Seek God diligently.  Trust in Him.  Bring yourself back to Him because He will never leave you nor forsake you.