We must the same journey from isolation and despair with God's seeming lack of help - My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? to commitment to allow God to finish his will in us - Father, into your hands I commit my spirit

1. Easter Activities - In God’s
Hands
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2. We must the same journey from isolation and
despair with God's seeming lack of help - My God,
my God, why have you forsaken me? to
commitment to allow God to finish his will in us -
Father, into your hands I commit my spirit
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3. “Into thine hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.” (Lk 23:46)
It has been suggested that since the Lord’s last words were “Father into thy
hands I commend my spirit”, His first words at the resurrection would have
been a continuation of the Psalm 31:5 from which He had quoted: “Thou
hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth”. But David didn’t say Ps. 31:5 on
his deathbed. They were not words of despair. It was not a final giving in
after a time of struggle. Instead, it was an expression of David’s desire to
commit his soul to the Father in gratefulness and praise.
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4. It’s so difficult to place our lives into the hands of someone
else. The apostles must have been quite disturbed to hear Jesus
first words from the cross “My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me?” (Mk 15:34). Those words, taken from Psalm 22,
words begin with David’s feelings of despair but end with words
of thanksgiving for victory.
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5. When Jesus said, “Father, into your hands,” He knew He was in safe
keeping because He was in His Father’s hands. He knew God would
never drop Him and He was safe and secure. Jesus speaking of us said,
no man would be able to pluck us out of the hands of God. Paul said
the same thing in 2 Timothy 1:12: “For the which cause I also suffer
these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have
believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have
committed unto him against that day.”
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6. We do not need to fear. We are in the hands of God. We
must make the same journey from isolation and despair
with God’s seeming lack of help – “My God, my God, why
have you forsaken me?” to commitment to allow God to
finish his will in us – “Father, into your hands I commit my
spirit”.
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