A personal God, in a very personal act of love, bore my sin--bears my sin. The tangled self-will of us all is only finally retrieved and transformed when we see that he died for us. In the seeing, our heart is broken and our self-will is transformed and the old rebellions are fundamentally dropped. How we fight this! How this cuts across the grain of our self-will. The cross is an embarrassment to us--that one should do on our behalf what we cannot do.
Strange how little we understand the cross after all these years. Is it because we can't afford to? If we let ourselves see, we would be irrevocably bound in obedience to this Saviour for time and eternity.
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