Today is Good Friday, the day we remember Jesus and his crucifixion.

Scottish preacher Robert Murray M'Cheyne speaks of the darkness of it all:

He was without any comforts of God--no feeling that God loved him-- no feeling that God pitied him--no feeling that God supported him. God was his sun before--now that sun became all darkness ... He was without God--he was as if he had no God. All that God had been to him before was taken from him now. He was Godless--deprived of his God.

He had the feeling of the condemned, when the Judge says, 'Depart from me, ye cursed ... who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power.' He felt that God said the same to him.

I feel like a little child casting a stone into some deep ravine in the mountainside, and listening to hear its fall-- but listening all in vain.Ah! This is the hell that Christ suffered. The ocean of Christ's suffering is unfathomable ... He was forsaken in the [place] of sinners. If you close with him, as your surety, you will never be forsaken ...

'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?'

The answer?

For me--for me. The ocean of Christ's sufferings is unfathomable.

Today, we remember the pain, the suffering, the anguish and the love.

The desperate, relentless, sacrificial love.

For me ...

For you ...

For us all.