Christ Jesus
The Greatest Wonder; when it pained, he stayed
When all the forces of evil rallied around
humanity, he took our place. His pores gave in and elicited blood for the dread
of what was before him. His flesh turned flaccid, his bones grew weary but his
will stood steady. He didn’t fear the nails driven through his wrists or the
brutal beatings that ripped his flesh out of place. No, he feared being
separated from his father. His own wrath against the ones he created would be
his own to endure.
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He was naked completely on that cross and
not as conservative as we would like to think. The shame of his private parts
exposed to all women, men and children that stood to watch a dishonoured
creation. Even the sun turned away from the scorn inflicted on its maker. It
grew dark and darkness covered the land. And as he hang on that wooden cross,
marred beyond recognition, broken beyond persecution, wretched as a piece of
meat dangling from a butcher’s hook, he knew the worst was still coming. The
deadly blow of the torture, he knew, he had not yet experienced. He knew that a
holy God could not face sin. He was God. He became sin.
For the brief moments he endured the
teasing and torture of men, it amounted to nothing in comparison to the wrath of
separation from his father. He who knew no sin was made sin so that you would
be made the righteousness of God. He who lived in holy light, took your
darkness so that you wouldn’t experience the shame on that cross. And his
father, like the sun, and all of creation looked away. Why hast thou forsaken me? It was not a question that reflected his
failure to understand his father’s move. It needed no answer but stood as a
rhetoric for us to understand the gravity of the sacrifice he made. He was no
longer one with himself. He was devoured by his wrath and separated from his father’s
love and glory. And in the greatest act of the cosmos, he stayed on the cross. In
the greatest event in the universe, he remained. He didn’t leave it by the help
of 12 legions of Angels. He remained to endure it for you. And when he did. He
surrendered his life and breathed his last.
And all mankind’s wicked, immoral, foul,
vile, dishonorable, corrupt, iniquitous, depraved, reprobate, villainous,
nefarious, vicious, malicious, sinister, demonic, devilish, diabolical, fiendish,
dark, monstrous, shocking, despicable, atrocious, heinous, odious,
contemptible, horrible and execrable sin was atoned for.
You were bought at a price too expensive
for comprehension. Divine blood was spilled that yours may stay.
Christ Jesus
The Greatest Wonder; when it pained, he stayed
Here is a beautiful story of the cost: The Lion, The Lamb and The Wind