A Love Abandon At the Cross
When I think about the deeds of Adam and Eve, this
causes me to think about the pain and hurt that our loving father must have
felt.
This hurt caused God to act quickly to reunite us back to Him.
His love for us is the greatest thing in this universe. The very
essence of who God is, His personality
and His nature is love "GOD IS LOVE". The motivation for God
sending Jesus into this world was "LOVE" John 3:16 (For God so loved the world
that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not
perish but have eternal life"' NIV
We have to understand that God's love for us is unconditional, it’s
eternal, it's perfect and personal. With this in mind try to
put yourself in His shoes. How would you feel if you loved
someone as much as God loves you and they turn their back on you? You
would probable do everything in your power to fix it, but that other person
doesn't want it to be fixed, tell me how would you feel?
Then if that person does come back but keep doing things to hurt
you, you would probably throw the towel in and wash your hand of the whole
situation. Well think about God, because that's what we do to Him on a daily
basis. These are some of the things he has had to endure from us and still He
chooses to love us unconditionally, with grace, mercy
and forgiveness.
John 3:16 tells us that God loves us so much that he gave us his
only Son. Yes, He gave His son, His only son, and this Son died on the
cross for us, so that we may redeemed back to our Father. The Bible lets
us know in Matthew 27:46 that while Jesus was on
the cross "about the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice,
"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabchthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why
have you forsaken me?"
Reading the about verse lets me know that there was
a separation at the cross on our behalf. At that very moment
when Jesus cried out, the sins of the world was placed on His shoulders, Isaiah 53:5 say "that he was pierced for our
transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought
us peace was upon him and by his wounds we are healed".
At the ninth hour when the sins of the
world were upon His shoulders and He cried out, I believe at that time God had
turned away from Jesus. The full
impact of this abandonment was
realized in astounding disbelief by Jesus because He was man and so
in turn cried out in distress. Because Jesus was man the impact was heart
breaking. As God is heart was broken and as man he must have
been devastated. Not only was the sins of the world placed on Jesus, but
Jesus with our sins was separated from God His father
(abandon at the cross). God the father cannot be in the presence of
sin and so had to separate himself from sin at the cross. But
there was also immediate victory at the cross when Jesus again
submitted His will to the father, by saying "it was finished".
John 15:13 "Greater love has no one that this, that he lay
down his life for his friends".
I ask you today, as you celebrate V Day with your friends and families
today think about that wonderful love, a love that was given by a man over 2000
years ago on a old wooden cross so that we might be saved!
