OUR KINETIC APPLICATION OF EVIL TO JESUS'S FLESH AND BLOOD CRACKED OPEN THE DARK ENIGMA OF GOD AND SPILLED ITS CONTENTS INTO THE LIGHT OF THE VALLEY OF TEARS
Evil was the foil against which Jesus set his apocalyptic revelation about God. His answer to the evil that we did to him told us everything we need to know about God.
ONLY ONE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE SURVIVED THE GREAT TONGUE-TWISTING OF BABEL (Genesis 11:1-9), THAT IS, THE LANGUAGE OF SUFFERING. The language of suffering is our native tongue. All creatures who suffer understand it. The language of suffering is a simple language. It works like this. Nobody signs up to dive headfirst or, for that matter, even dip his toe into the boiling cauldron of suffering unless they are insane or something important outweighs the high cost of suffering. We understand that suffering is an exorbitant price we only willingly pay for something that is extremely dear to us. Jesus paid the exorbitant price because we are extremely dear to Him (Matthew 10:29-31) . "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13) (John 12:24). Jesus did not speak to us in the language of divinity. As creatures of flesh and blood, we do not understand the language of divinity. Jesus did not speak to us in the language of the angels. As creatures of flesh and blood, we do not understand the language of angels. JESUS ANSWERED THE QUESTION, 'WHO IS GOD?' IN THE LANGUAGE OF SUFFERING BECAUSE HE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THE CHILDREN OF ADAM AND EVE UNDERSTOOD HIS ANSWER. We are extremely dear to him. God is head over heels in love with us. The Son of God became one of us - an equal to us in our humanity - a partner with us in our suffering - so we could become an equal to him in his divinity - a partner with him in his glory (Romans 8:17) (John 1:12).
“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” (Psalm 8:4).
By doffing his invulnerable armor of divinity and donning our frail uniform of flesh and blood in the Incarnation, God opened a clear channel for unambiguous communication with the children of Adam and Eve. Our kinetic application of evil to Jesus’s flesh and blood cracked open the dark enigma of God and spilled it's sweet contents into the light of the Valley of Tears. Blindfolded by sin, we whacked the piñata of God with evil. The brutal and lethal blow released into the Valley of Tears the sweet syrup of love in the form of forgiveness (Jeremiah 31:31-34)(Luke 23:34 )(Acts 10:43) (Matthew 6:12) (Matthew 18:21-35) (Luke 7:47) to dilute its toxicity in the same way that sugar cubes dilute the bitterness of a cup of bad coffee. Dilution is God’s solution to the problem of evil.
“… And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more” (Jeremiah 31:31-34)
Evil was the foil against which Jesus set his apocalyptic revelation about God. The contrast magnified the revelation. The container for Jesus’s apocalyptic revelation about God was his answer to the evil that we did to him. In his answer to the evil that we did to him, Jesus forgave us (Jeremiah 31:31-34)(Luke 23:34 )(Acts 10:43) (Matthew 6:12) (Matthew 18:21-35) (Luke 7:47). Jesus put the gentleness of God on display in the position of prominence in the showcase of Christianity on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. Forgiveness is the irrefutable proof that God’s love for us survived the evil that we did to Jesus. Forgiveness is one of the sweet fruits of love. From forgiveness, we can reason backwards to love. No love; no forgiveness.
His love for us is real. Reality is reliable. We can depend on the reality of his love for us. The children of Adam and Eve grossly underestimate the blessings available from the God who loves us in the Valley of Tears. GOD DARED US TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIS LOVE FOR US.
"Put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, And see if I do not open the floodgates of heaven for you, and pour down upon you blessing without measure!"(Malachi 3:10)(John 7:38).
By punctuating his body with bloody wounds, our evil opened the floodgates of forgiveness (Malachi 3:10). Parsimony is not the hallmark of the God who loves us. Therefore, do not expect a mere pittance from the God who loves us (Matthew 8:13). Expect much from the God who loves us. Through the ups and downs of life, through the vicissitudes of adversity and prosperity, despair not. Keep your expectations in the God who loves us high. Refuse to allow the evil in which we are baptized to lower our expectations in the God who loves us.
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened (Matthew 7:7-8)
Jesus wrote his message of love in the ink of suffering
The application of evil to Jesus’s flesh and blood cracked open the enigma of God to reveal him to us.
Jesus put the gentleness of God on display in the position of prominence in the showcase of Christianity on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. He forgave us for the evil that we did to him (Jeremiah 31:31-34)(Luke 23:34 )(Acts 10:43) (Matthew 6:12) (Matthew 18:21-35) (Luke 7:47)
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