We have heard and meditated on what Our Lord Jesus went through on the cross for us; to release us from our sinful death and give us life. The Spirit has been sharing what the Father went through. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16). He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you (1 Peter 1:20). The Father knew, before He spoke our existence and gave us dominion, we would fail and the death of His Son would be required to rescue us. The Father loved His begotten Son, before He spoke the words that separated the earth from the seas. “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world” (John 17:24).
When we read the simple words, the scripture writers used to record the beating and crucifixion of our Lord, we imagine what Jesus suffered for us. The Father witnessed what we did to His Son, and He knew before He took woman from man what we would do. The Father did not turn away His eyes until our sins were put upon our Lord and Savior on the cross. The Father saw each of the disciples walk away after the arrest of Jesus Christ. He saw the people of Israel abuse the promised One. He saw the soldiers receive pay for punishing the Innocent. He saw the whip breaking His Son’s skin, and the blood run onto the earth He ordained as a dwelling place for mankind. The same earth God picked up in His own hands to create the first man was receiving the Blood of our Savior. The same earthly vessels He was preparing as a dwelling place for His Holy Spirit were killing His Son, as the Father watched.
The Father knew the exact seed placed into Eve that would be passed down and become His Son. The Father watched as the seed was passed from one generation to the next. Our Father knew when He made a promise to Abraham what that promise required to be fulfilled. God so loved us that He gave His Son who He knew and loved.
Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!”
And he said, “Here I am, my son.”
Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together. (Genesis 22:7-8).
The Father knew, for the two of them walk together!
God gave Sherry and me a very special daughter. From a very early age the doctors told us that she would not live long. The medical establishment had us prepared to wake up any morning and find her dying or dead. It is not an easy way to live day-to-day believing that our child would die. One morning we awoke to find her blue and cold with little breath left in her body. We rushed her to the ones that told us she would die. The local hospital airlifted her to downtown Chicago. As we rushed up the freeway at a snails pace, during the early morning Chicago rush hour. God spoke to us. God told us, “Everything will be okay; your child will live.” God knew what it felt like to know His child would die, and He took that pain away from us. She is now twenty-two years old.
As we remember the walk Jesus took up Via Dolorosa, remember the Father was watching. The Father knew the day and the hour His Son’s death would be manifested in this earth. God poured His heart out so we might have a relationship with Him. As the Blood of the Lamb of God poured out onto the earth, the Holy Spirit was preparing to flood the earth with God’s love. God is love, and God has given Himself to us in a way no one of us can fully imagine. The Father knew when the seed passed from Eve would produce His Son in Mary’s womb, and sent an angel to foretell. The Father watched each time the seed was passed along the way. The salvation of every man and woman on this earth is extremely important to the Father. With God all things are possible, because of what God has done for us.
© 2009, Tim D. Coulter Sr.