Ten Thousand Angels

 

Disclaimer: Obviously I am not an actual angel. However, I feel like God speaks to my heart and I would love to share it with you. Please enjoy.

Have you ever thought about the love it took for Jesus to come to the earth and die on the cross for us? Then again, have you ever thought about what it took for God the Father to allow Jesus to come and die for us?

Dying on the cross was not the only sacrifice Jesus made for us. Before the cross He left Heaven where there was no sin and the beauty was beyond belief. He was with the Father and the Holy Spirit, not to mention the angels. We don’t know how many angels He created, but it could very well be in the millions or even billions. However many there are, they worship the Father, Son and Holy Spirit constantly.

When He came to earth He left all of that to come to a place filled with sin. The Bible says that God is so holy He can’t even be around sin. Jesus had to take on a mortal body to even be able to tolerate our sin. That alone was an unbelievable sacrifice, even if the cross hadn’t been looming before Him.

He also left a place where each one of His creations loved Him and lived to serve Him. Here most of the beings He had created hated Him to the point that they killed Him in the most vicious way they knew how. They beat Him until He was unrecognizable as a man. They drove a crown of thorns into His head, the pain of which I can’t even imagine. Then they humiliated Him by making Him carry His own cross up the hill, and they stripped Him naked in front of the whole crowd before they killed Him. They also laughed and jeered as He died.

The night before He faced all of this, He was praying in the garden of Gethsemane and asked God if there was any other way, to take this cup from Him. But, because of His love for us and His submission to His Father, He also said “Not My will but Thine be done.” He was sweating drops of blood as He prayed this.

Do you believe the fear of the physical pain He was going to go through was the biggest reason He dreaded what lay ahead? No. Sweating blood is a real phenomenon that is very rare and only happens in times of the most extreme stress. Many people before Him had been crucified but had not sweated drops of blood. So, what would be so stressful as to cause that to happen?

The answer is that He knew when He took all the sin of the world into Himself, His Father would not be able to be with Him, or even look at Him. This would be the only time through all eternity He would be separated from His Father. It was almost more than He could bear. That is why, while on the cross, He cried out, “Father, why hast thou forsaken Me?”

Father God was unable to be with Jesus again until three days later when He rose from the dead victorious over sin.

My sister, Diane, sent me an email today containing an old song from our youth. The name of the song is “Ten Thousand Angels”. Some of the words go like this.

”He could have called ten thousand angels

To destroy the world and set Him free.

He could have called ten thousand angels

But He died alone for you and me.”

Now for a moment, let’s think about the sacrifice Father God made. In a way His sacrifice was almost greater than Jesus’ sacrifice.

Many of you reading this are parents. If your child was trapped in a burning building, would you even hesitate to run into the fire to save them? Of course not. Your love would drive you to risk, or even lose, your life to save your child. You wouldn’t even think about it.

Can you imagine how it hurt Father God to allow His Son to die. Not only did He not save His Son, but He watched Him walk into the fire and didn’t stop Him. I feel certain it would have been easier for Him to go to earth and die for us than to watch His Son do it.

Have you ever stopped to realize that if you were the only person who had ever sinned, They would have gone through all this just for you.

The love the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have for us is beyond imagination. How can anyone possibly reject a love like this.

Think about it.

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