He was without any comforts of God — no feeling that God loved him — no<br />feeling that God pitied him — no feeling that God supported him. God was his<br />sun before — now that sun became all darkness… He was without God — he<br />was as if he had no God. All that God had been to him before was taken from<br />him now. He was Godless — deprived of his God. He had the feeling of the<br />condemned, when the Judge says: “Depart from me, ye cursed,” “who shall<br />be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and<br />from the glory of his power.” He felt that God said the same to him. Ah! This is<br />the hell which Christ suffered. The ocean of Christ’s sufferings is<br />unfathomable… He was forsaken in the [place] of sinners. If you close with him<br />as your surety, you will never be forsaken… “My God, my God, why hast thou<br />forsaken me?” [The answer?] For me — for me.