Isaac Watts said of the cross “Did ere such love and sorrow meet…”. In Christ love and sorrow meet; yes, even yet, dwell together. It was His great love that gave the birth to His great sorrow; it is the pain of loving. It is the cross where divine love intersects with human misery. It is the intersection that changes our hearts and puts us on the right Way. It is the place where God breaks in on us in suffering love. It is by this that the very nature of God is revealed. It is there that we know that God is not out to get us, but is out to redeem us. It is the tree that restores us to the Tree of Life.
“We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1 Corinthians 1:23–24 ESV).
