Christ's Agony

    As we look at Good Friday and ponder the betrayal and death of our Lord, it seems the very biggest issue is the one that is so easily forgotten - he took the wrath due for my sin...  We don't seem to hear that, or even want to, but it is really the reason the gospel is good news.  I can have peace with the Creator of the universe because he became the payment for my sin.  It is almost too good to be true, and yet, praise the Lord, it is!  Let Jonathan Edwards guide you to the garden of Gethsemane and see new depths of Jesus' love.   

The love of any mere man or angel would doubtless have sunk under such a weight, and never would have endured such a conflict in such a bloody sweat as that of Jesus Christ. The anguish of Christ's soul at that time was so strong as to cause that wonderful effect on his body. But his love to his enemies, poor and unworthy as they were, was stronger still. The heart of Christ at that time was full of distress, but it was fuller of love to vile worms: his sorrows abounded, but his love did much more abound. Christ's soul was overwhelmed with a deluge of grief, but this was from a deluge of love to sinners in his heart sufficient to overflow the world, and overwhelm the highest mountains of its sins. Those great drops of blood that fell down to the ground were a manifestation of an ocean of love in Christ's heart.

 From Jonathan Edwards, Christ's Agony.

Here is a song from that powerfully illustrates this...

 May you have a very sweet time of contemplation this Easter.