God is not a moody Father who was personally offended by our sin, requiring the death of His Son to appease His own bloodlust. The cross did not satisfy His anger, but His love. Jesus entered into our own self-imposed experience of separation from God – our own psychological calamity we encountered as a consequence of sin. But He was not purchasing the Father’s love; the Father has positively always been for us – even when we were running from Him and setting ourselves up as His enemies. Such a revelation dismisses the idea of schizophrenic, narcissistic god – a god who only loves sometimes – as long as that love is conditioned by blood sacrifice. The blood was not to pay off an angry god. The blood was an ultimate manifestation of love to redeem us from the corruption of sin. “Even God’s wrath is not separate, dark side of His personality. His wrath is a hot extension of His love – a hatred of the sinfulness that destroys His children.”
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:44:21 +0000
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