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The Cross from most angles looks like an act of “injustice” and “unfairness.

Though the Cross of Christ may look unfair from most angles … for Jesus the angle of being on the Cross was planned with a note of purposeful “yielding.”

John 10:17-18 "Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. "No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father."
Jesus was confidently trusting the Father and was therefore surrendering control of His life into the Father’s hands.
“I am ready to release My hold on life, and I’m unafraid to do so because I am placing everything about Myself into Your hands.”
Had it been you and I on the Cross, and it should have been, would we have been so easy to commit the “what was happening now” into God’s hands?

How about the “what is happening now?”To what is happening to us today … unfair injustices and injuries … can we commit our feelings, emotions, actions and words into the Father’s hands?If we cannot commit the now to God the Father how can we ever commit the “forever” into His hands.
 

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This ability or willingness of Jesus to trust His Father with His death...even a horrible, public death...is very meaningful to me lately...guess because as I am aging, I see my own passing coming up; at least I am way closer to the next world than I have ever been.

It helps me greatly to see how much the Father loves the Son and how much the Son loves the Father...makes me feel very safe somehow.
 
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