Catch Away - We are going home !

Sorry for the lack of posts recently.  I sold my laptop so I could upgrade my wife's computer...so I'm something of a man without a computer country right now 

Was compelled by the Lord to share something with you that happened last Friday.  I was in prayer for those that I take before Him everyday.  I was in the process of thanking Him for the immeasureable love of the vicious painful price that He paid on the cross...and He stopped my voice and I immediately knew that the most painful part of the crucifixion was not the nails in His hands and feet...nor was it the crown of thorns that had been beat into his head.  The most painful moment occurred in Matthew 27:45-46...

At noon, darkness fell across the whole land until three o'clock. At about three o'clock, Jesus called out with a loud voice, "[Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?]" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

I don't know about you, but my brain tends to oversimplify the price that Jesus paid for us on the cross.  Friday morning, the Father caused my heart to dwell on the most painful moment in recorded history...when He was forced to impart our sin onto the Son and turn away from Him.  It was then that the tears started.  I thought about my own son who's only a month and a half old....could I even imagine turning away from him and making him into the one thing I despise the most...to save an enemy?  I don't know about you...but being honest, I don't love anyone that much.  But that is in fact what the Father did for each of us.  While we were still enemies of His, he put upon Himself the most unbearable pain...not the physical which was bad enough...but the turning away from the Son.

Resurrection weekend is past...but I feel the Father's reason for me bringing this here was so that each of you would perhaps take a moment and let your heart dwell on just how deeply you are loved...the most terrible moment this world will ever know...which then became the greatest victory that saved every one of us.  I reject any notion that salvation was free.  It cost the Father and Son dearly...I am convinced that each of us was paid for by a price so incredible that we cannot and will not comprehend this side of Heaven.

Your brother in Christ and the least of these gathered here,

Jeff Holliday

You are absolutely right, Jeff. I have thought many times that there is no way I could love anyone that much...especially my enemies. Thank God everyone's salvation doesn't depend on ME!!

Thanks for posting this.

I was just saying Sunday that I also couldn't imagine putting myself in Mary's place. Being trusted by the God of the universe to raise him and hold him and teach him. And then to watch him suffer and die for sinful, evil people such as ourselves!! I can't even imagine her grief!!

Yes,Jeff,you are so right.If I was God,I might just turn some of the places on earth into parking lots.Just wipe them off the map.I must also remember that I was one of many that sent Christ to the cross.I have a book entiled"The Day I Was Crucified".This book is as if Jesus wrote it in first person.It starts out the in garden and descibes all the emotions he felt,it ends with the ressurrection.The anquish he felt as sin, death,hell,the world and satan came to him telling him he had lost at last. The emptiness he felt when the Father had to turn his back on him while he bore our sins.He paid a debt he did not owe,I owe a debt I could not pay.Praise be to God, that he loved the world so much that he sent his only begotten son to die for us! We can not comprehend the love, mercy and grace that the Father has shown us!

Thank you, Jeff. That was a very humbling post. I agree, I also at times am guilty of oversimplifying the price He paid. I have imagined the awful pain physically Jesus went through for us. But that moment when the Father turned away from Him and the sin of the world was upon Him must have been unimaginably awful.

Thanks for the post.

God bless,

John

Jeff, great post.  Thanks for sharing your heart with us. That was well said and touching.

Jeff. my brother. I think that we will ot know the full cost of our Lord's blessed gift to us until we get to stand face to face with Him and truly understand IT ALL. It reminds me of the song as to wether or not, I will be able to say anything, or will I be shouting for joy, or truly laying at his feet with the comprhension of what incredible price he paid for my sins. Thanks for sharing that with us!!