Folks, hello. Something unusual (and brief) this week – just one short verse, as I find it so thought- & worship-provoking; and it’s certainly shaped my picture of God.
In the 2 Samuel civil war Absalom’s been killed. And this is David’s reaction: ‘O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you – O Absalom, my son, my son!’ (18:33).
This is the utterly agonized cry of a good, loving father. (Even for a son who right then had been trying to kill him, having forced him out of his capital, and raped all
his concubines.)
And so —- shall we not think this was God the Father’s agonized cry, as He watched His perfect Son go literally through hell, for you and likewise for me, on Golgotha…?
And shall we not worship?
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