The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe
"Pondering the Imponderable"
Had God not created angels, the universe, and human beings, the Lord Jesus Christ would never have suffered the wrath of His Father and the wrath of man.
"We did esteem Him smitten of God… They crucified Him" (Isaiah 53:4; Matthew 27:35).
Consider that a perfectly fulfilled, content, and self-existent God determined to make beings and things other than Himself. Had this simply involved engineering and art of a magnitude beyond imagining, we would marvel. However, His creation of conscious, volitional beings - angels and humans - meant that God the Father would one day pour out His wrath upon His eternally beloved Son, who "bore our sins" and was "made… to be sin for us" (I Peter 2:24; II Corinthians 5:17). This leads us beyond marvel unto a mystery of pondering the imponderable. No less than the Apostle Paul knowledged the glory: "The love of Christ passeth knowledge" (Ephesians 3:19). What kind of being would do this? Only one. The God of the Bible.
"Be still and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10).
Our Heavenly Father calls us to use our capacity to think about truth as much as we can, as well as we can. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God…with all thy mind" (Matthew 22:37). Regarding our Lord's sorrow, suffering, forsakenness, and death, we especially seek to "grow in grace, and in the knoweldge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ" (II Peter 3:18). However, such consideration begins and continues in the realization that the greatest measure of a God who suffers because He created us will forever lie far beyond our comprehension. He could have forever lived in the infinite joy and contentment of His own triune being and relationship of infinite love. Nothing that approached suffering would have ever been necessary. He nevertheless chose to create, and ultimately to know pain of spirit, soul, and body far beyond the contemplations of the most thoughtful among us.
Words fail as thoughts fail regarding this most holy of all wonders. No expression of praise or thanksgiving is adequate (although we offer our grateful expressions of heart and voice nonetheless). Perhaps the best response is to make personal our awareness of the truth, namely, God's determination that you and I exist made necessary His determination to know pain and suffering beyond measure. Creation resulted in Calvary, including our own personal existence that made the cross necessary. Words indeed fail as a profound stillness arises within our hearts in the realization that this most holy of all wonders will forever lead us to heed the prophet's call…
"The Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him."
(Habakkuk 2:20)
Weekly Memory Verse
The Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him.
(Habakkuk 2:20)
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