The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"How Personal?"
How personal does God desire to be with us? This personal.
"My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" (Matthew 27:46).
God the Father smote God "the beloved Son" with His wrath against sin on the cross of Calvary. "We did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God" (Isaiah 53:4). This included the abandoning of the Lord Jesus Christ by the Father and the Holy Spirit in personal terms too holy for our ever being able to understand. The Bible does not include any attempt to explain what occurred in the heart of our Savior when He cried out into the darkest of all nights, and in the most brokenhearted perplexity and sorrow. It simply tells us that it occurred, and that the hope of our hearts - God's eternally abiding presence - lies in the forsaking of the Lord's heart. How personal does God desire to be with us? This personal.
Of all that can be known about such an aberration in the triune being of God, His desire for relationship and fellowship perhaps shines forth as the brightest of all lights in the darkness. Indeed, in any moment of our existence, the Holy Spirit assures us that we can come to the Father because the Lord Jesus was left to die alone at Calvary.
"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh, and having a high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith" (Hebrews 10:19-22).
We may "draw near" because the Father and the Holy Spirit turned away from the Lord Jesus, "made… to be sin for us" (II Corinthians 5:21). In our best moments of faith and faithfulness, we come through this highest of all prices paid to provide our approach to the most aptly termed "throne of grace" (Hebrews 4:16). In our worst moments, we may draw near as we come with repentant hearts, trusting in Christ alone as our access. We come because They - the Father and the Holy Spirit - left the Lord Jesus to die alone in the fury of God's wrath against our sins. How personal does God desire to be with you and me? This personal.
We tread on the most holy of all grounds as we ponder our freely given relationship and fellowship with God, freely given to us, but made possible by a price we can never begin to fully know. This holy ground beckons us to our knees and faces, even as it calls us to arise and walk with God in the closest terms of Heart to heart He can provide and we can receive. How personal? How personal does our Father desire to be with us in this moment and forever? This personal: "My God, My God, why?…" makes possible both now nad forever our "My God, My God, I come."
A trail of Blood marks the path
leading to the throne,
where God receives the trusting heart
approaching by His Son.
Without the cross, there could not be
this access freely known.
Without such sorrow, pain, and loss,
we'd have nowhere to go.
Yes, every prayer flows to the Throne
on flood tides of Christ's blood.
We come with grateful, trusting hope,
in wonder of such love…
A trail of Blood marks the path leading to the Throne.
"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God."
(Romans 5:1-2)
Weekly Memory Verse
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit.
(Titus 3:5)
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