His Depths

I mentioned before how the Lord has used my cats so many times to speak to me about my relationship with Him. I have two cats, Mazie, a female, and Percy, an orange & white Norwegian Forest Cat. As I mentioned before, he is often affectionate. But, he's still a cat. Several months ago, I'd just taken him to the vet and had spent a considerable amount of money on him. I reached out to pet him and he backed away. I said to him, 'You don't know what you cost me!' Well, I hadn't even finished saying those words and tears came to my eyes, as I felt the Lord was saying the same thing to me. 'You don't know what you cost Me!'

I've been a believer for over 30 years now, have a pretty good handle on The Word, but I still don't know what I cost Him. I doubt I ever will until I see Him face to face, and am not certain I will even then. Even in the realm of eternity, will we truly EVER be able to fathom what we cost Him? I'm not sure we ever will. Of course, we'll be able to fathom it much more deeply than we do now, but will we ever be able to fathom the deepest depths of His sacrifice? Will we be able to ever fathom the DEPTH of His suffering on the Cross as He was separated from His Father FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER? Was that suffering worse than the physical suffering He bore? I'm not minimizing His physical suffering on the Cross, but I really believe His separation from His Father was probably far worse, as He'd ALWAYS been in constant communion with Him, even as He lived in a human body here on earth. And then, there's the matter of bearing all the sin ever committed by mankind. Will we ever be able to fathom THAT? I doubt it. I can't even imagine what it must have been like for Him to bear ALL of my sin alone, let alone EVERY sin ever committed...from Adam and Eve to the last person who'll ever be born before He returns! We are somewhat desensitized to sinning, as we do it all the time (and 'justify' much of it), but He had NEVER sinned! It was as alien to Him as being a stone is to me, a human.

It will take all of eternity to enter in to even the tiniest measure of the (true) depths of the riches of the glory of our Christ Jesus! I thank Him for the glimpses He gives me/us even now in these mortal bodies! We have SO MUCH to look forward to!