God's Thoughts of His Dear Son

On Fathers Day, we noted God the Father's love for us His children, as displayed by and through His Son. Jesus tells of the Father's love, and He demonstrated it at Calvary. The Father delivered up His Own Son, an act of sacrificial love by the Father as well as by the Son.

But a thousand sermons cannot exhaust the love of God for us!

We make the mistake of objectifying the Father, as if His goodness to us is mechanical and not motivated by love.

We cannot see Him, but His Son displays Him to us, and models His love for us.

Some say God has no emotion or passion, but the Psalmist tells us that He pities us like a Father. By taking to Himself the title of Father, God means to communicate to us His love, His tenderness, His pity, His sacrifice, His delight, His protectiveness, His jealousy, His grieving, His mercy toward us.

But the Father must have had the same feelings toward His only begotten Son as well! Indeed, God has told us that He well knows a father's love to his son, in several places in Scripture.

This is why Christ prayed to His Father, and poured out His grief and His isolation, both in Gethsemane and upon the Cross. The Father feels for His Son, just as He feels for His people!

Imagine the Father's thoughts as Jesus poured out his sorrows in the garden! It is inconceivable that Jesus did so, if the Father's heart had been cold and passionless toward Him!

No doubt the Father grieved over the treatment of His Son by wicked men! How angry He must have been to see His Son mocked as He went to be God's Lamb slain for sinners!

How must the Father have felt when he poured out His wrath upon Jesus, and heard His cry of anguish there!