🔇 Why God Was Silent at the Cross | Matthew 27 Devotional (7-Step QT)
7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Bring your honest questions and emotions before God—especially the moments when He feels silent. 2. 📅 April 3, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s saving love was revealed through holy silence and costly grace. 3. ✝️ Matthew 27:45-56 From noon to three in the afternoon, darkness covered the land, and Jesus cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” before yielding up His spirit. At His death, the temple curtain was torn, the earth shook, tombs were opened, and a centurion confessed that Jesus truly was the Son of God. Women who had followed and served Jesus from Galilee watched these events from a distance. 4. 📖 Key Verse And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit (v. 50). 5. 📝 Reflection Crucifixion was an extremely cruel form of execution designed to cause a slow and agonizing death while hanging on a cross. Scholars explain that the primary causes of death were respir...