Sacrifice

Jesus said a lot of things on the cross, but 2 stick out to me.

The first one is "I am thirsty" John 19:28 ^"Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty." and the second one was "My God, My God" Matthew 27:46 ^"About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi,^c]">[c] lama sabachthani?"—which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Why did Jesus say these things? To fulfill the prophesy? Or was it something deeper...is there something here that maybe we as "the separated" haven't seen before?

In Matthew 27:46 Jesus refers to God as God...everywhere else in the Bible where Jesus speaks or prays He refers to God as Father. When speaking to others and teaching them to pray He refers to God as My Father or YOUR FATHER, but on the cross He cries out, "MY GOD"!! Why? Where has the intimacy gone of a Father and His Son? On the cross, Jesus became sin for all of eternity. He couldn't have the relationship that He'd lived with forever; during His time of sacrifice He was like us. Because He became our sin, He also endured our separation from the Father and for that He COULDN'T refer to Him as Father...He HAD to call Him GOD. He chose for us to become apart from the love of the Father so that we could have a Father/son relationship with the Creator. Jesus knew that was His purpose and that's why he taught us how to pray, "our FATHER"...He knew that His sacrifice would bring us into an intimate relationship with God the FATHER.

So why did He thirst? I know that the scripture tells us that He thirsted and they gave him sour wine but are we to believe out of all of Jesus did, one of the last things that He'd choose to tell us is I'm thirsty? I think that it goes back to the My God thing. Jesus wasn't thirsty in His flesh body, Jesus was THIRSTY in His spirit! On the cross, Jesus was sin; He was separated from the Father--He was like us!!! He was thirsty metaphorically for the relationship that He'd had with the Father. His perfect communion had been broken by sin (not His, but ours) and He was suffering spiritual DEATH while on the cross. Sure He physically suffered and died, but spiritually He suffered and died as well. He was thirsty for the RIVER OF LIFE...not for sour wine!

I know that this isn't the best writing that I've had, but hey..it's been a long week. I'm just thinking maybe Jesus had more to say from the cross then--"Hey, I sure could use a glass of water up here!"