The title — borrowed for this post — of Christian Light’s lesson for Easter Sunday is good for me.

I’ve been struggling of late with a sense of abandonment. Oh, I know intellectually that I have not been abandoned. But that knowledge has had quite a wild battle at times with feelings of abandonment.

But this title gives me some perspective and sense of proportion which I’d forgotten.

The Son suffered.

Wow.

So where is my sense of proportion and perspective when I suffer?

And where is my faith when I feel abandoned?

Might my feeling of abandonment be indicative of my having forgotten God too much?

Where is God’s praise from me?

Do I keep the Lord before me? How? When? Why?

What makes my heart glad?

Will I rest in hope?

Where am I in relationship to the path of life?

In His presence is fullness of joy!

“But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me” (Psalm 22:19).