I came across a book I have had for a number of years and just never took the time to read. It's called Power of the Blood, Approaching God with Confidence written by Bob Sorge. I have been feeling an urging within my heart to share some of these thoughts that are impacting me so much at this moment.
Things that I have never even thought about when it comes to the Cross and the Blood of Jesus and more importantly,about how did GOD 'feel' about watching what His Beloved Son said yes to, when He agreed to become 'the Lamb of God, slain before the foundation of the world.' For some strange, or perhaps not so strange reason, I feel the need to ponder and ask for deeper insight.
When you come to the Cross, You're getting God at His Highest
Passion.
If you want to know what God feels most strongly
about, talk to Him about His highest joys and deepest sorrows. I am persuaded there is nothing God feels more strongly about than the Cross
of His Son.( Is. 53:3) While God knows many sorrows there was one that eclipsed
all others. Never has anything torn and lacerated the infinite depths of God's heart as
deeply and severely as the crucifiction of His Beloved Son.
And....He'll never
forget .
Look at His Cross . All you see is blood. Blood on His scalp . Blood on His face.
Blood on His neck. Blood on His shoulders. Blood on His arms. Blood on His hands. Blood on His back. Blood on His chest. Blood on His legs. Blood on His feet.
Blood on His Cross. Blood on the ground. It was a spectacle of Blood.
And then came waves of divine wrath as the deeply offended God unleashed upon His Spotless One the punishment for our sins. As the Son endured the barrage of fiery indignation, creation itself turned dark at noonday because of the terror.
Look at His Cross . All you see is blood. Blood on His scalp . Blood on His face.
Blood on His neck. Blood on His shoulders. Blood on His arms. Blood on His hands. Blood on His back. Blood on His chest. Blood on His legs. Blood on His feet.
Blood on His Cross. Blood on the ground. It was a spectacle of Blood.
And then came waves of divine wrath as the deeply offended God unleashed upon His Spotless One the punishment for our sins. As the Son endured the barrage of fiery indignation, creation itself turned dark at noonday because of the terror.
None of us knows just how astronomical the pain of God was during those
interminable hours of what Thomas Dubay calls 'Consummate splendor in monstrous
horror'. Because of the pain He and His Son endured God has deeper conviction and
stronger opinions about Calvary and what it
accomplished.
Come to the Cross and you find a God who is inflexible regarding alternatives, dire in consequences for those who reject it, lavishly extravagant towards those who receive it, and immediately responsive to those who reach for it. Because when you come to the Cross , you're getting God at His highest passion.
Come to the Cross and you find a God who is inflexible regarding alternatives, dire in consequences for those who reject it, lavishly extravagant towards those who receive it, and immediately responsive to those who reach for it. Because when you come to the Cross , you're getting God at His highest passion.
Jesus abandonment left God undone.
Calvary shook heaven to the core. God was undone. Jesus' fixation on His
Father during His suffering moved God's heart to it's very foundations
You know how valuable you are to God by looking at what He was willing to pay to redeem you.
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