The most hurtful Scream
Sometimes people do very bad things to me. Then 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 they were 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 a complaint. And He did it for us. He knew there was a divine purpose in all of this madness.
I once heard a terrifying scream, coming from a man after a truck ran 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 was about to die, without Christ.
But this scream could not convey what Jesus felt when He screamed My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? This was the only time He complained No words ever carried so much hurt throughout the ages. With those 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 have You forsaken Me? Can you image if God turned His face (grace) from you in your greatest moment of despair?
Why did Jesus agree to drink of this cup? It could not have been to fulfill prophecy or to gratify the old law. Can it be love that kept Him on the Cross? Or was is it to obey His Father, no matter what the cost? Maybe it was both.
The most victorious words are: It is finished. The divine plan for the redemption of 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, was fulfilled. Amazingly people throughout the ages will come to this Cross of death, and gain everlasting life.
Sometimes people do very bad things to me. Then 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 they were 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 a complaint. And He did it for us. He knew there was a divine purpose in all of this madness.
I once heard a terrifying scream, coming from a man after a truck ran 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 was about to die, without Christ.
But this scream could not convey what Jesus felt when He screamed My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? This was the only time He complained No words ever carried so much hurt throughout the ages. With those 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 have You forsaken Me? Can you image if God turned His face (grace) from you in your greatest moment of despair?
Why did Jesus agree to drink of this cup? It could not have been to fulfill prophecy or to gratify the old law. Can it be love that kept Him on the Cross? Or was is it to obey His Father, no matter what the cost? Maybe it was both.
The most victorious words are: It is finished. The divine plan for the redemption of 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, was fulfilled. Amazingly people throughout the ages will come to this Cross of death, and gain everlasting life.
