The enemy’s job is to offer us God’s promise without the relationship with Him (eat the apple and you will be like God). Sin is what destroys that relationship. God’s wrath is poured out on that which will harm us – sin (we are, by our very nature, objects of God’s wrath - Paul). Jesus being fully God and fully man grew in favor with God and man which means that he voluntarily relinquished all the knowledge of being God when he became a baby. This is why he only did what he saw the Father doing – he was walking in a pure relationship with Father. When Jesus was on the cross he became sin so that the Father would pour out His wrath on the Son in order to destroy sin. This was the only time that the relationship that they had was torn apart. Father knew for the first time what is was like to be Sonless and Jesus saw for the first time what it was to be without the Father. This is why he said “Father why have you forsaken me” – he couldn’t see His Father.
I’m sure I messed up some parts of it up but you get the general idea. I’m not sure why I tend to forget these parts when I toil over the cross in my head. I usually think that Jesus died for our sins and now we are free. That is just too simple and without depth. Regardless, the cross is the crucial issue in our faith and without us fully understanding this matter we will feel distant. I think that is why so many Christians are so pissy. They usually have three venues to vent there frustration: sexual perversion, anger and drugs. Living under the obligations of Christianity without the relationship with the Father will drive you mad. Until you die and let Father have total control you will continue to be dissatisfied.
posted by Tera @ 9:54 AM
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