At the Cross

    Never before had anything come between him and
his Father, but now the sin of the whole world has come
between them, and he is caught in this dreadful vortex
of the curse. It is not that Abba is not there, but that he
is there, as the Judge of all the earth who could condone
nothing and could not spare even his own Son (Rom. 8:32).
    Now, Jesus’s mind is near the limits of its endurance. We,
sitting in the gallery of history, are sure of the outcome. He,
suffering in human nature the fury of hell, is not. He is
standing where none has stood before or since, enduring at
one tiny point in space and in one tiny moment of time, all
that sin deserved: the curse in unmitigated concentration.
But then, suddenly, it is over. The sacrifice is complete,
the curtain torn, and the way into the Holiest opened
once and for all; and now Jesus’s joy finds expression in the
words of another psalm, Psalm 31:5. In the original, it had
not contained the word Abba, but Jesus inserts it: “Father,
into your hands I commit my spirit” (Luke 23:46).
    We have no means of knowing what intervened between
the two cries. We know only that the Cup is drained and
the curse exhausted, and that the Father now proudly
holds out his hands to the spirit of his Beloved Son. – Desiringgod.org Pg81