But how can we think about and meditate upon Him and His sufferings and yet remain unmoved? I realize the Lord has given us life and that includes many things. But why have we become so aloof from those crimson wounds except in special days? Can there not be several times during the week that you enter into a spirit of worship because of the great cost that He paid? Has the cross and the sufferings of Jesus become stale to those who profess His name? What?? God forbid! Stir it up once again in your heart. Rekindle that awe that sees His redemptive wound as the spilled out ransom for your own sins and transgressions. Gaze with the eyes of faith at His writhing frame as He gives His own life for His sworn and practicing enemies. This is no saccharine melodrama designed to elicit fleeting emotions. God suffered for you. Just those four words should generate a loving worship which brings us to our knees and renders our hearts as broken before Him. The imagination stands powerless to fully explore the cross in all its bloody glory. Somehow our fallen intellect sees God has immune from pain as we understand pain, and when we think that God knew all about the resurrection as His Son suffered the ignobility and excruciating pain of the crucifixion that somehow the coming resurrection buffered the Father from emotional pain. For too long we have seen our God as a force and not as a divine person. When we feel a sense of pain, and when we weep as we meditate upon the cross of our Lord, it does not mean we feel sadness at what He has done. On the contrary, we see a victory that far outdistances anything we can even imagine. However who among us can stand without emotion as we understand the incredible cost that made our salvation free to us? It is a glorious mystery, and the blood that ran from Emmanuel’s veins not only paid for our sins and ransomed our souls, but it openly rendered the works and intellect of man as a despicable thing which even today attempts to rival that old, rugged cross.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:39:51 +0000
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