I am learning that there is nothing about vulnerability that Jesus Christ Himself has not experienced.
I strongly sense that when we dwell in the Secret Place of Jesus and His food becomes our food and His desires become ours, we get in touch with all that we truly are. We feel more than we think is humanly possible. We feel the very heartbeat of God.
Our Spirits become One is such unison that it is death to even imagine what a separation from God will cause us.
Imagine Jesus Christ being in such a place of separation from God when He took upon Himself the sin of this World. I can't fathom the depth of emptiness he felt.
Isaiah 53 reads:
Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression[a] and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.[b]
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes[c] 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.
11 After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life[d] and be satisfied[e];
by his knowledge[f] my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[g]
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[h]
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
Would you believe me when I tell you that it is for you that Jesus Christ died?
He died not only for your yesterday but for your today and your forever.
Greater love has no man than this: that He laid down His life for a sin which you should have carried yourself.
I can't say more on this matter. The above Scripture is enough to carry the message I desire to put across.
And, if this isn't enough to convince you, I don't know what else will.
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