“By 3:00 p.m. today, Lord, you will have been put to death.
Your returning to the Father will occur very soon. Your journey back to the
Father will include being tortured, scourged, spit upon, slapped, crowned with
thorns, kicked, shoved, stripped naked, nailed to a cross and “hung up" to
die. Isaiah described you as “inhumanly
disfigured” (Is 52: 14), that you “no longer looked like a man—so many nations
will be astonished and kings will stay tight-lipped before…[you], seeing what
had never been told them, learning what they had not heard before. Who,” Isaiah
asks, “has given credence to what we have heard?...[You] had no form or charm
to attract us, no beauty to win our hearts; …[you were] despised, the lowest of
men, a man of sorrows, familiar with suffering, one from whom, as it were, we
averted our gaze, despised, for whom we had no regard. Yet ours were the
sufferings …[you] were bearing, ours the sorrows …[you were] carrying, while we
thought of …[you] as someone being punished and struck with affliction by God;
whereas …[you were] being wounded for our rebellion, crushed because of our
guilt; the punishment reconciling us fell on…[you], and we have been healed by…[your]
bruises.”
“My bones were not
broken, Dorothy Ann (insert your
name). My heart was. I saw and experienced the ugliness of sin and
its torturous effect on all of creation, male and female, humans and animals,
all of the earth. It was not pretty. It was repulsive to look at, as was I on the
cross.”
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