Psalm 27:10
For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
but the LORD will take me up.
Jesus was a stranger and wayfarer in this world and among his own people, the children of Adam and Eve. In a very real sense, he was forsaken by his father Adam and his mother Eve eons before his birth. Once they fell, it was just a matter of time before their suicidal refusal of the life of God became a homicidal attempt to kill God if they ever got their hands on him. In a monotheistic universe, pretenders to the Throne such as ourselves make it, in the end, a god-eat-god world. And so, sure enough, when God did show up in their midst, Adam and Eve made their first stab at snuffing him out when he was scarcely two and they periodically renewed the attempt through out his life. Adam sought to throw God off a cliff, to stone him to death, to trick him into getting himself arrested, and finally, when these all failed, he crucified him for being what Adam was not: God. But because Jesus was indeed God, his Father took him up from the grave. And he, in his divine generosity, gave Adam and Eve himself to eat and drink so that they might indeed eat God, no longer as godforsaken “gods” but as men and women made glorious in the God who became man and who will never forsake us.
