.JPG)
The greatest injustice that ever took place, or ever will, happened at the day and hour that Our Lord Jesus Christ voluntarily took the blame for our sins. In doing so, he manifested the highest act of righteous piety ever seen, or ever will be. He cried, "My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?"
When forsaken, he cried this. When taking taking our punishment, he cried this. At his lowest, even at death, God was his God! Having been "made sin for us," he remained the pure sacrifice for our sin.
By his death, therefore, we have life. By his mighty act of weakness -- his death -- the powers of the Devil were defeated. Our sins were canceled. The wrath of God was satisfied. The honor of God was upheld. Christ the Savior was still God.
The Prince of Life could not be held by death. The source of Life gained Life again, and we have Life in Him!
Glory be to God!
And yet simultaneously it was the greatest execution of justice that ever took place or ever will. The Judge of all the earth dealt justly with the crimes of all the earth (or at least all the crimes of those to be found in Christ at the last day). It was the ultimate and a ghastly penalty for the heinous murder of the image of God we all perpetrate.
ReplyDelete"Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?" ~ Genesis 18:25 (NASB)
Reviewed and retained.
ReplyDelete