A Reflection for "Holy Week"

"We’re now in the realm of the sublime and profound
With God at the helm it’s about to go down

The Father’s wrath precise will blast and slice
The priceless Master Christ as a sacrifice

Willingly, He’s under the curse
To be treated as if the Son was the worst scum of the earth

The scene is the craziest
Jesus being treated as if He is the shadiest atheist

How is it the Messiah is in the fiery pit
As if He was a wicked liar with twisted desires?

The One who’s sinless and just
Punished as if He was promiscuous and mischievous with vicious lust

The source of all godly pleasure
Tormented as if He was a foul investor or child molestor

How could He be bruised like He was a goodie two-shoes
who doesn’t think that she needs the good news?

He’s perfect in love and wisdom
But He’s suffering as if He constructed the corrupt justice system

We should mourn at the backdrop
Jesus torn like He’s on the corner with crack rock with porn on His laptop

What is this, kid? His gifts are infinite
But He’s hit with licks for religious hypocrites

He’s the Light, but being treated like
He’s the seedy type who likes to beat His wife

He’s treated like a rapist, treated like a slanderer
Treated like a racist or maybe a philanderer

Jesus being penalized like He had sin inside
Filled with inner pride while committing genocide

I could write for a billion years and still can’t name
All of the sins placed on the Lamb slain

But know this: the main thing the cross demonstrated
The glory and the holiness of God vindicated"

"So forever will I tell
In three hours, Christ suffered more than any sinner ever will in hell"

-Shai Linne The Cross (3 hours) verse 2 and bridge.

How Much Does God Love His Children?

If you belong to Jesus Christ, he is speaking of you; for says he, “I know
my sheep”. “I know them”; what does that mean? Why, he knows their number, he
knows their names, he knows every one for whom he died; and if there were to be
one missing for whom Christ died, God the Father would send him down again from
heaven to fetch him. -George Whitfield

The Heart of Salvation

"At the heart of salvation lies reconciliation to the God who made us and under whose just judgment we lie. Its ultimate triumph is a new heaven and a new earth…the consummating transformation of this fallen, broken existence, the gain of resurrection bodies, and above all the sheer triumph and glory of God." -D.A. Carson