Soul Snack 8/35 ... Restraining Good Friday?
The preceding day is a day of malevolent indulgence. Self will and self protection will now precede justice
Neither man nor God would give constraint on this Passover Friday. Neither would withhold their intention from the world.
Violent red stained streets scream for innocent blood but either party would give an inch.
Spineless and self-serving leadership acts without goodwill, only in self-interest.
A throng totally absent of wisdom and devoid of moral fibre party relentlessly through the death of God.
No restraint, no self audit or no self correction would appear at this darkest hour.
Equally without self restraint, God withheld not even His only Son. The Father gives completely out of His total of poverty.(He only had one son to give, there were no cosmic twins with a 'spare' if the first one should die.)
Neither does this Son on the cross restrain Himself. He requests no heavenly army, nor delivers any eternal curse. He completely gives Himself. He understands entirely! No torment will He keep Himself from.
To the Jews He had yielded for that which is eternally wrong. There is no personal consideration, as this nail suspended saviour cries:
"father forgive them for they do not know what they do." Luke 23:34
Ignorance the domain of these God-resisting murderers, knowledge and grace the domain of this God-submissive saviour.