Considering the Death of Jesus

In considering the death of Jesus, of the Son of God, Second Person of the Trinity; of the sense of abandonment experienced by the Son of God on the cross; the heart-piercing, spirit-plummeting alienation from comforting Spirit; of God's thus taking into his very being for eternity the utter despair and pain, the abyss, of this abandonment: we must not think we have wounded God, as if he has that vulnerability and we have that capability. We must not think that in this abandonment, this death, we are the center, the central characters, of the action, the drama. The Trinity are, the triune God is, the center, the drama. Yet we must at the same time grasp that somehow, in God's freedom and sovereignty, not in any intrinsic vulnerability or intrinsic capability, not because of any central importance we bear, we have indeed sorely wounded God. Or rather, God in the Son, through the loving obedience of the Spirit, has chosen to be wounded. And into this divine drama has God graciously crossed his world, thus to be healed by that wound.