We’ve all witnessed—and experienced—times of injustice when God seems absent. If God is good and sovereign, how could these things happen?

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Christ’s last hours on the cross remind me that we can’t judge by what we see. Imagine being one of Jesus’ followers and witnessing His last hours (Mark 14:53-15:37). What would you think watching Jesus suffer through false accusations, illegal trials, floggings, beatings, being spat upon, mocked, taunted, heaped with insults, and finally being nailed to a cross?

The taunting included feigned expressions of a desire to believe. “If He’d only come down from the cross.”

“He saved others but can’t save Himself!”

Imagine being Jesus’ mother and hearing Him cry out loudly, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

What must His followers have been thinking? How could this happen to Jesus? How would things appear to you, or to your enemies?

Jesus’ own words seem to indicate defeat and confusion. Bystanders must have concluded, “Poor fool—He really thought God would rescue Him.”

From all appearances, it looked as if God had abandoned Jesus. This, after all, is the Father’s one and only Son. If God wouldn’t save Jesus, how can I trust Him with my life?

Appearances screamed, “It’s foolish to trust God. Those who do are left hanging.”

But those conclusions would be dead wrong. The biblical narrative continues, “The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom” (Mark 15:38 NIV). What appeared to be God abandoning humankind, was, in fact, God opening heaven to us.

The temple curtain separated the holy place from the Holy of Holies. Only the high priest could enter the most holy place, and then only once a year. Sinful humans could not come into God’s presence and live.

Jesus’ body was broken to pay the penalty for our sin and open the way for us to enter the very presence of God. God Himself tore the curtain from top to bottom. What, from all appearances, seemed to be the worst moment in history, was in fact the highest, holiest, and best.

What looked like the Father abandoning His Son was actually God “in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself” (2 Cor. 5:19 NLT). God was not absent. He was working out the perfect plan He’d set in motion before creation to secure your and my future and hope.

There are times in every life when trusting God appears foolish, and it looks like God has left us. Don’t you believe it! Remember God’s story’s not over. The cross reminds us—things aren’t always what they seem.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” (2 Cor. 4:18 NIV).

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