“This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you.”
I finally learned what that statement means. My 5-year old son had somehow gotten a splinter wedged in his palm, and it was dad to the rescue. With tweezers in hand, I fished it out while tying to cause my son as little pain as possible. He let out a shriek that was almost superhuman. Oh yeah, it hurt. But it hurt me too. Knowing that I brought pain to my son (even though it was necessary) did something inside me, it broke my heart. And then it hit me, “What must it have been like for the Father to see His Son dying on the cross?” My son’s splinter experience was nothing compared to the pain and agony Jesus endured. And the way I felt must have been nothing compared to the Father’s heartache a His Son ultimately suffered under His own hand (Acts 2:23). When we think of the cross we tend to think in terms of Jesus doing all the suffering. A splinter showed me that’s not the case. Any thing you’d add?
November 21st, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Been reading a few books lately and one of them is probably one that many have read… a book called “90 minutes in Heaven”. Now I cant say whether what this person experienced was real but one thing he said in his book which was very interesting to me and something that really made me think. In the book, he mentions as he is approaching the gates of heaven…the amazing sounds that he hears, and the music and the glorious singing and sounds he heard all praising God and God’s love. I am paraphrasing here…but the one thing he noted looking back was he never heard any songs about Jesus dying on the cross… such as one of his favorites as is many of ours “That Old Rugged Cross’. It was if in Heaven there was no thoughts of pain..no more strife..no more worries.
I cannot even fathom what God must of felt seeing HIS son pay such a dear price. With all the stories of kids being killed lately… one story hit me particulary hard this past week, it was a Father who heard his 15yr old son did something innappropriate with his youngest step sister…. he stripped his son down and dragged him outside into a field and with his son on his knees pleading “No Daddy please No”…he shot his son in the head…execution style… they later found out the boy while he was inapproprate with his sister he never hurt her in a physical sense.
Being a Father myself….I have no idea how God could of allowed HIS son to go through what he did other than knowing his wonderful love for us and seeing a much bigger picture in all of this… I have NO idea what would have drove this man to shoot his own son as he did. I just have to try and maintain Faith that God is in control and he knows what is best even if we cannot comprehend with our earthly mind all the craziness around us. I just want to tell my son how much i love him tonite…I am sure God does the same with Jesus.
God Bless.
God Bless.
December 20th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
My son’s splinter experience was nothing compared to the pain and agony Jesus endured. And the way I felt must have been nothing compared to the Father’s heartache a His Son ultimately suffered under His own hand (Acts 2:23).
Thank you for posting this, it really hit me and i cried, i felt my heart melt, because it is true, to be honest I have always heard about Mary’s pain when he was being crucified,but i NEVER thought of our heavenly father, What was it like for him to see his own son going through all the pain to save us. Thank you for making me see it differently.