What heart could hold the weight of Your love, and know the heights of Your great worth? Who is like You God? You are Holy, and most worthy!
What a beautiful song. So many thoughts and images of Jesus run through my head when I listen to this, but there is one that I just keep picturing and it just makes my heart break for God.
It doesn't really matter if you're a parent or not. If you can picture the crucifixion you will be able to understand what I am going to share with you.
From the time my girls were born, until now all grown up and on their own, my love for them never stops growing. I know that is how Gods love is for us. No matter what my kids did wrong I still loved them unconditionally. No matter what we do wrong, or have done, or will do, if you are a believer the blood of Jesus redeems us. But love goes both ways, and love should be respectful and obedient to our God.
There are things you have to do as a parent, even though it hurts to do it. Like punishing your children when they do wrong, or bringing them for their painful shots when they were babies. I hated taking them for those, even though it was for their own good. Isn't it true that a loving parent does everything for the best for their children?
Now picture this with me if you would. We take our babies for their series of shots that they have to have every so many months. Sometimes we have to hold their arms down to receive them. As they endure the pain, I always wondered what my baby was thinking of me at that moment. Maybe it was something like "this person is suppose to love me, why are they letting this happen to me? But really their little minds don't have the capacity to understand what's happening. Then when it's all over, they hold on to us so tight for comfort again. It made me cry almost every time. I believe God cries too....
This makes me think of Jesus. When He was being held down to be nailed down to the cross for the good for all mankind. What heart could hold the weight of this kind of love, as the Father looked on knowing that this had to be. There was no other way to take away the sins of the world, but for His Sons blood to be shed. John 3:16... Because God loved us so much, He gave us His Son as a LIVING sacrifice.
I wonder what Jesus must have been thinking as He endured such pain. I know at one point He cried out, Matthew 27: 45-46 "Father why have You forsaken Me" Yet He obeyed every step of the way of His Fathers will for us all! None of us have the mind capacity to understand the HORRIFIC experience of having the sins of the world put upon our Lord Jesus as He hung in excruciating pain on that cross. The physical pain was one thing, but the spiritual separation must have been even greater.
UNDERSTAND SOMETHING, Jesus died for the sins of the world. Even those who He knew were, and still are in disbelief of who He said He is, and why He came. All Sin, except one is forgivable, but only when we repent and turn from it. Acts 17: 30-31..."He COMMANDS ALL PEOPLE everywhere to repent." The only sin that is unforgivable is unbelief.
My prayer is that we realize that there is, and always was, good and evil from the beginning of time. God is not to blame for peoples choices. Free will is what we all have been given from a God who showed His great love like no one else ever will in this lifetime. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. He has been such a patient Father, waiting for His creation to desire to become His children.
Will your eyes one day look on His glorious face? Repent, turn from sin to your Savior and BELIEVE!
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Kim
