When You Feel Forgotten
Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Is 49:8-15 · Ps 145 · Jn 5:17-30
Have you ever felt forgotten?
Not by accident.
But really forgotten.
Your message stays unread. Your effort unnoticed. Your name missing from the list.
Everyone moves on.
And you wonder:
Did anyone notice I was here?
People in the Bible felt that way too.
One day they said to God:
“The Lord has forgotten me.”
They had lost their land. Their city was destroyed. They were far from home.
Exiles.
And when life falls apart, it is easy to believe
God has moved on.
But God answers with a question.
“Can a mother forget her child?”
A shocking image.
A mother who carried a life inside her.
Who woke up at night. Who listened to every cry.
Can she forget?
God says:
“Even if she could —
I will not forget you.”
That is how the Bible speaks about God.
Not distant. Not cold.
Patient. Merciful. Slow to anger.
The psalm says:
“The Lord is gracious and merciful.”
Again and again the same melody returns.
God does not give up on people.
Then Jesus appears.
And people ask Him a dangerous question.
“Why do you act like this?”
Why heal? Why forgive? Why disturb the rules?
Jesus answers in a surprising way.
“My Father is always working.
So I am working.”
Jesus is saying something bold.
If you want to know what God is like —
watch me.
The Son does what the Father does.
He lifts people up. He restores lives. He calls the broken back to life.
But Jesus goes even further.
He says something that sounds impossible:
“Whoever hears my word has passed from death to life.”
Not only later.
Now.
A new life already begins.
The people of Isaiah’s time were exiles far from home.
Jesus says there is a deeper exile.
Living without hope.
Living without God.
Living as if love will not have the last word.
And this is why Christ came.
Not only to teach.
But to bring people home.
From death to life.
From despair to hope.
From exile to the heart of God.
So when the voice inside you says:
“You are forgotten.”
Listen again.
Another voice is speaking.
“I will never forget you.”
And that voice has a face.
Jesus of Nazareth.
The Son who shows us how the Father loves.
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