06/14/2026
Without knowing God, it is difficult to understand what He did when He sent His Son to die on the cross. This is one reason why many in the world continue to take sin lightly. Yet when Jesus bore the sins of humanity on the cross, we see the severity of God’s righteous wrath poured out upon Him. In the agony of that moment, Jesus cried, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46b). The suffering should have been ours, but He willingly endured it in our place. As Isaiah foretold, “Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush Him and cause Him to suffer, and though the Lord makes His life an offering for sin, He will see His offspring and prolong His days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in His hand” (Isa. 53:10).
This verse does not mean that God delighted in His Son’s suffering itself. Rather, it pleased the Lord in the sense that Christ’s sacrificial death fulfilled God’s redemptive plan to save sinners. Jesus became the perfect offering for sin, accomplishing what no human sacrifice could ever achieve. Through His suffering, death, and resurrection, many would be brought into God’s family (“He shall see His seed”), and God’s purpose of salvation would prosper through Him.
This highlights both the severity of sin and the greatness of God’s love and grace. The cross reveals how seriously God regards sin, yet it also demonstrates His mercy in providing His own Son as the atoning sacrifice so that we might be forgiven, reconciled to Him, and become heirs of His eternal kingdom. Through His sacrificial death and victorious resurrection, God extends His grace to us so that we may overcome the world, live lives pleasing in His sight, and rejoice in the hope of being co-heirs with Christ. One day, we will inherit His eternal kingdom and share in His glory forever. All praises to God our ABBA Father who loves us so much.