Yes, indeed, this is the wonder of wonders, the miracle of miracles, at which my mind will forever stand amazed! That the thrice Holy Savior should
take the sinner's place, and, coming under the sinner's doom, should be smitten
of God, this is a mystery past finding out!
Hell is horribly amazing but the death of Jesus is far more astounding, and especially that in death He should cry, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me!" Only the Son of God could endure this great grief. Yet is it a mystery of mysteries, that so divine a person should be capable of enduring it.
The marvel is thought to be, that a man should be able to suffer so much. But the real marvel is that, being God, He should suffer at all. The being forsaken by the Father, was the very essence of His grief!
My soul, adore and love, you cannot understand it!
Behold the eclipse of your soul's Sun, and know that, had not this been, you would have been in the darkness of Hell forever!
Hell is horribly amazing but the death of Jesus is far more astounding, and especially that in death He should cry, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me!" Only the Son of God could endure this great grief. Yet is it a mystery of mysteries, that so divine a person should be capable of enduring it.
The marvel is thought to be, that a man should be able to suffer so much. But the real marvel is that, being God, He should suffer at all. The being forsaken by the Father, was the very essence of His grief!
My soul, adore and love, you cannot understand it!
Behold the eclipse of your soul's Sun, and know that, had not this been, you would have been in the darkness of Hell forever!
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
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Matthew 27:46 ... And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Romans 5:6 ... For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
1 John 2:2 ... And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Acts 4:12 ... Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.❤
Romans 5:6 ... For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
1 John 2:2 ... And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Acts 4:12 ... Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.❤
