Chronicles of a Tinman

"For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person--though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die--but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:6-8

We weren't just weak, we were infants unable to move, being torn asunder in our sin as we waited to die and be hurled into the depths of God's wrath.

"And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, 'Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?' which means, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'" Mark 15:34

This is the pain and suffering, the passion that Jesus endured for us. We were to be entirely separated from God. We were to be thrown into the relentless torture of God's fury, His judgment, until Jesus stepped in and took upon Himself that which was our failure, our grief, our wickedness, paying for our sin with His purity.

Scripture says He died while we were still sinners. Still sinners is interchangable with hating God, for sin is the spurning of God's love and will for our lives- direct and purposed disobedience. So, while we still hated Him, Jesus died for our sins, had His soul ripped away from that of the Father's and cast into the perfect darkness and damnation of total estrangement to God.

Just as no words can fully encompass who God is, there are not even groans that can bring to summation the agony Jesus endured when His spirit was brutally wrenched from that of the Father's. The moment that God turned His face from His son and severed the connection between their spirits was what killed Jesus. It was a pain that is incomparable, and because of this Jesus took it upon Himself so that we may never endure it; rather, we can now experience the holy love of God, unity with God, and perfect peace under God.

"For I am sure that [Now, becaue of the sacrifice of Jesus] neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38-39 And for this I say Glory to God!