Often when we are faced with death, loss, and other misfortunes, we are grossly unprepared. The Bible gives us honest language for suffering. And nowhere is that clearer than the cross of Jesus Christ. On the cross, Jesus does two remarkable things: He openly acknowledges His suffering. “I thirst.” And He completely entrusts Himself to the Father (that’s surrender). “Into your hands I commit my spirit.” Those two statements show us something powerful: When life drains us dry, we can still place ourselves confidently in the Father’s hands.