I’ve been thinking lately about how much more I understand now, as a parent, what God the Father felt when He sent His Son, Jesus Christ into this world. The perfect, pure Son who has never seen evil, who has never been touched by evil, but lived in perfect harmony from the beginning of time, was sent into this world and ridiculed, beaten, suffering at the whim of wicked men, his mission finally culminating in that moment of utter aloneness on the cross, when the Father turned His face away from him. How hard it must have been for God to allow His Son to go through that, for our benefit. They have always been together, and not only did they separate during Christ’s time on earth, but the Father had to forsake him in spirit as well, for that awful moment on the cross, when Christ was weighed down by our sins. How it must have broken the Father’s heart to turn His holy face away from his beloved Son! And how much the Father had to love us, in order to allow His Son to go through all that for us! I don’t think that being omnicient (knowing the outcome) made it any easier for Him to bear that moment in time.
As a mother, I know how much I love my son and seek to protect him. I cannot imagine sending my son into a den of lions for someone else’s sake! And that’s exactly what God did for us! What love the Father has toward us!
As a mother, I know how much I love my son and seek to protect him. I cannot imagine sending my son into a den of lions for someone else’s sake! And that’s exactly what God did for us! What love the Father has toward us!
“For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:6-8
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