"Cause for Pause" -Yo!

"Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily." (Psalms 74:22) Regardless of what you might think of the sickness and death in this world, God's love is more powerful then all the wickedness this world can muster together! That, I believe, is the reason Jesus' death was so messed up; it was because this world is so messed up, that He needed to be messed up to represent the wages of the sin He would be taking onto Himself. If you go back to the beginning, death was more than just dying, it was carnage and complete disregard for life. Sure, Adam named his wife Eve, which meant 'mother of the living,' but how far down the chain did that make a difference in the respect for human life? It pretty much stopped at Adam and Eve! You think about all the carnage and death that has happened since, it is almost 100% of all the lives that have ever lived; with a few exceptions, everyone has suffered death since the very beginning in the Garden. A couple have been taken up, but only one has died and been resurrected, and that was Jesus Christ. But He did not just die, He was torn apart and then hung on a cross! You don't think people who knew and loved Him weren't devastated? I can only imagine what His mother must have been going through, watching her son be beaten within an inch of His life, humiliated, spit upon, and nailed upon a cross for all to see. And what does Jesus say after all that mistreatment? He says, "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do." Really! They actually knew what they were doing, they just did not realize who it was they were doing it to! And you want to know the part that gets me the most, God allowed it to happen! No, God willed it to happen, just as it did; with all the gore and the humiliation; with the beatings and the insults; it was all part of His perfect will, all the way down to the crown of thorns and the parting of His clothes. Even that "rich man's grave" that He borrowed, the one spoken of in Isaiah 53:9. It was a borrowed grave! Jesus rose up out of that grave victorious and alive! Despite all that carnage and humiliation, He became the Victor; after becoming death, He overcame death and the grave! Talk about something to shout about: HE IS RISEN!!!
"But it was the LORD'S good plan to crush Him and cause Him grief. Yet when His life is made an offering for sin, He will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the LORD'S good plan will prosper in His hands. When He sees all that is accomplished by His anguish, He will be satisfied. And because of His experience My righteous Servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for He will bear all their sins. I will give Him the honors of a Victorious Soldier, because He exposed Himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels." (Isaiah 53:10-12) NLT