Sunday, September 8, 2013

On the cross ...

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?  Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from my cries of anguish?”  (Psalm 22:1, NIV)

  There is something so powerful in the prophetic verses that come true in the death of our Lord recorded in Psalm 22. Not only in their recording of the death of Jesus but in the deeper sense of Jesus grasping  our hopeless predicament as people lost in our sin and redeeming us by laying down His life.  He experiences our loneliness by experiencing the deepest loneliness ever experienced … as Jesus the son was separated from His Eternal Father (Psalm 22:1-2).  For eternity the communion, fellowship and love was complete in perfect unity and now He was separated from the Father.  He was mocked in a far deeper way that can ever be imagined, as He was taunted to come down from this place of humiliation and suffering to save Himself. This could have done in an instant, but a great unfathomable love restrained Him to remain on the cross to save the world (22:7-8). His physical pain, before and during the crucifixion is beyond description ( 22:12-18). 

     Why was his death carried out in this particular way?  He had to die. In His death, His place as the Son was severed and torn from Him, separated now from the Father as He bore our sins and the sins of the world.  None of the details of His death fell into place to amaze us with prophetic fulfillment but to travel the distance releasing in all ways ...from all our sins, pain, suffering, loneliness, and every other part of our human brokenness. Redeeming everything about the fallen world and everyone in it.  He completes that redemption and healing in an ultimate way by taking us remade by the Holy Spirit, into eternity where we will be with the Risen Lord forever (Hebrews 5:7-9). It is an amazing grace, that saves us.

“Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord. They will proclaim his righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn: He has done it!” (Psalm 22:30-31, NLT)

Suggested Bible Reading … Psalm 22

  

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