Dear friends,
With all that’s going on in our world these days,
particularly with the Virus, we hear that we should maintain our distance
from others to prevent its spread. That is good and wise advice to follow for
the most part in this situation, but separation hurts. Some of us -
particularly those who live alone, hunger for the touch, the nearness and
support of our loved ones.
Today, I’d like to ask us all to think of that word - separation - in
terms of the separation that Christ must have felt when He bore our sins on the
cross. Do you think He felt the loneliness we do when we lose that
closeness with the ones we love the most?
Here’s a poem that may help us to look at what God (The
Father and the Son) suffered for us on that day.
Separation
“My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
The cry was heard from Calvary's tree.
And as the cry rang out from Calvary's knoll,
it was heard in heaven
and broke the heart
of the one that loved that pain wracked soul.
When that cry rang out, oh the pain it brought
to the Father who loved the Son he begot.
But He could have stopped it.
He could have released
His Son from the suffering,
– the pain could have ceased.
He could have held that soul in His arms
protecting Him from this terrible harm.
It could have been that Christ felt Him there
easing the burden, the sins he would bear.
But the answer was "no" –
release wouldn't pay, the price was still due -
the price for salvation for me and for you.
The only price that could save the lost
was the separation of God on the cross
from God in His heaven - the Father and Son
to be torn from each other - a tearing of one.
That day on the earth, the darkness that reigned,
came not from the soldiers, came not from the pain.
It came from God's heart tearing in two
hurting much more than any could do.
Loving so much, that it broke His own heart,
The Son on the cross and the Father apart.
Separation,
The price that was due
as God hung on the cross
paying ransom for you.
Diane Gruchow
Revised Feb 2020
Excellent post. It's also wise to remember that Jesus' separation lasted but a short time. This too shall pass. :)
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