My Unusual Journal
My Unusual Journal 17 - Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 1:35 PM
A Cause for Weeping and a Source of Everlasting Joy
I am sure you will forgive me for devoting so much time to the facts and the means of Jesus’ death on the cross inasmuch as the salvation of us all hinges on that terribly cruel death in which Jesus was hanging between heaven and earth and accepted by neither. Perhaps I write so often about the crucifixion of Jesus because I can never say what I feel; I can never fittingly describe this gruesome event and the details of His hour of Passion. It has rocked my world and will always be a cause of wonderment to me. Jesus’ sacrifice is the core of our salvation. So weep and rejoice with me as I reprint this post from April 7, 2005.
He died of a broken heart for you,
He died of a broken heart;
O wondrous love for you, for me,
He died of a broken heart!
We have often seriously reviewed in our minds the dreadful suffering that Jesus endured for us. There is another more specific angle from which to view this grievous event. The words of the song above are true, almost literally. Now it may be that Jesus’ physical heart did not actually rupture from the grief and torture He went through (although there has been scientific evidence that admits the probability). Nevertheless, we know beyond all doubt that the overwhelming emotional grief and exquisite physical torture that were heaped ad infinitum on the mortal body of Jesus were the direct causes of His death.
Jesus didn’t merely die like the other two who were crucified with Him; that would have been just a tragic incident having nothing to do with the salvation of the world. His two companions in death suffered greatly as all deaths by crucifixion were torturous events, but no crucifixion before that of Jesus ever brought with it such unimaginable pain or such universe-rocking effects.
God has not granted me a transcendent revelation on this, but it seems unlikely that this climactic happening – this event that affected all creation – could have occurred without causing a ripple outside the solar system, which includes the sun and its planets. We know that at this time
“…the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. “ (Rom. 8.19-21)
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