Thursday, November 5, 2015

AN INFINITE AND ETERNAL SACRIFICE - AN ACT OF LOVE FROM THE GOD I KNOW

I sometimes go around and around with people on the nature of God.  To me it is VERY clear.  I do NOT understand why some people have any struggles with this concept, whatsoever:
This Melvin J. Ballard quote made me weep. It's from the institute manual for the Old Testament
(17-24) Isaiah 53:10. Did It “Please” Father in Heaven to “Bruise” His Son?
Obviously God was not pleased with the way Jesus was treated, but He was pleased with His Son’s “offering for sin” (Isaiah 53:10). The Atonement met the strictest demands of God’s innate justice and made forgiveness and mercy possible on certain terms.
Elder Melvin J. Ballard explained why it pleased God not to interfere: “In that hour I think I can see our dear Father behind the veil looking upon these dying struggles until even he could not endure it any longer; and, like the mother who bids farewell to her dying child, has to be taken out of the room, so as not to look upon the last struggles, so he bowed his head, and hid in some part of his universe, his great heart almost breaking for the love that he had for his Son. Oh, in that moment when he might have saved his Son, I thank him and praise him that he did not fail us, for he had not only the love of his Son in mind, but he also had love for us. I rejoice that he did not interfere, and that his love for us made it possible for him to endure to look upon the sufferings of his Son and give him finally to us, our Savior and our Redeemer. Without him, without his sacrifice, we would have remained, and we would never have come glorified into his presence. And so this is what it cost, in part, for our Father in Heaven to give the gift of his Son unto men.” (Bryant S. Hinckley, Sermons and Missionary Services of Melvin Joseph Ballard, pp. 154–55.)

1 comment:

  1. How sweet it is.... the Love our Father has for all of us.... Each one of His children is precious in His sight , so much so that He would offer His Most Perfect Son..... To be our Rescuer,Our Redeemer. How much we are filled with His Love at the pondering of the condescension that both The Father and Son went through during that event.....How lost we would be forever without Their Sacrifice.

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