God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.
If one is filled with revulsion at the thought that such
vengeance is ascribed to a Savior whose love and tenderness are beyond all
imagination and description, might not the solution be that these very attributes
make hating and rejecting such a Savior worthy of supreme retribution?
