Sometimes people do very bad things to me and then, while in lamenting I will weep and ask why. Why did they say this or that about me? How could they do this to me? The things people did to me were not always right but allowed, because there is a purpose in this kind of madness. While going on in this mode I suddenly saw something.
It was not right to spit in Jesus face or to pull out His beard. Neither was it right that the soldiers ripped chunks of flesh out of the back of Jesus nor the spikes that pierced His hands - the hands that healed the sick. But it happened and GOD ALLOWED IT.
All that was done to Him He accepted without a word or without complaining and He did it for us. He knew that there was a divine purpose in all of this madness.
I once heard a terrifying scream, coming from a man just after a truck run over him and the one side of his body was almost gone. Before he died he screamed. I could not understand the words, it was in a different language but I think he realized that he is about to die without Christ. But this scream could not carry what Jesus has felt when He screamed My God, My God why did You forsaken Me! This was the only time He complained No words could ever carried so much hurt throughout the ages. With that words the Trinity was dismantled, the Godhead was disjointed. The unity was no more. It was more than Jesus could take. He withstood the beatings and remained strong at the mockery trials. He watched in silence as those He loved ran a way. He did not get even when the insults where hurled nor did He scream when the nails pierced His wrists. But when God turned His head that was more than Jesus could take, and in great agony He cried out My God, My God why did You forsake Me. Can you image that God turn His face (grace) from you in your greatest moment of despair?
Why did Jesus accepted to empty this cup It cannot be to fulfill prophecy or to gratify the old law. Can it be love that kept Him on the Cross? Or is it to obey His Father no matter what the cost? Maybe its both.
The most victorious words are It is finished The divine plan to redeeming man was finished. The blood has been poured, the sacrifice has been made. The sting of death has been defeated. It is finished, the price to take away all the sin of the world has been paid in full. A complete, sufficient work on the Cross of Calvary, were fulfilled. Amazingly that people throughout ages will come to this Cross of death and gain everlasting life.
It was not right to spit in Jesus face or to pull out His beard. Neither was it right that the soldiers ripped chunks of flesh out of the back of Jesus nor the spikes that pierced His hands - the hands that healed the sick. But it happened and GOD ALLOWED IT.
All that was done to Him He accepted without a word or without complaining and He did it for us. He knew that there was a divine purpose in all of this madness.
I once heard a terrifying scream, coming from a man just after a truck run over him and the one side of his body was almost gone. Before he died he screamed. I could not understand the words, it was in a different language but I think he realized that he is about to die without Christ. But this scream could not carry what Jesus has felt when He screamed My God, My God why did You forsaken Me! This was the only time He complained No words could ever carried so much hurt throughout the ages. With that words the Trinity was dismantled, the Godhead was disjointed. The unity was no more. It was more than Jesus could take. He withstood the beatings and remained strong at the mockery trials. He watched in silence as those He loved ran a way. He did not get even when the insults where hurled nor did He scream when the nails pierced His wrists. But when God turned His head that was more than Jesus could take, and in great agony He cried out My God, My God why did You forsake Me. Can you image that God turn His face (grace) from you in your greatest moment of despair?
Why did Jesus accepted to empty this cup It cannot be to fulfill prophecy or to gratify the old law. Can it be love that kept Him on the Cross? Or is it to obey His Father no matter what the cost? Maybe its both.
The most victorious words are It is finished The divine plan to redeeming man was finished. The blood has been poured, the sacrifice has been made. The sting of death has been defeated. It is finished, the price to take away all the sin of the world has been paid in full. A complete, sufficient work on the Cross of Calvary, were fulfilled. Amazingly that people throughout ages will come to this Cross of death and gain everlasting life.
