He saved me.

My life before Christ was all wicked. I was dead in my trespasses and sins. There was nothing good in me. I was an enemy of God. Worse, I blasphemed His sacrifice and spit in the face of the Lord. If by now you are thinking, "Wow, he's a bad guy." then good that is what you need to be thinking. I would seek my own selfish lusts leaving in my wake a mangled path of carnage, debris, and my families tears. All for the calling of selfishness. So this brings me to the question, how can a holy and just God look past all of that wickedness? Two words, He can't. God must punish the wicked or He isn't just. I fall under the category of wicked. So he cannot look past it. If he looks past sin and refuses to punish it He is then a liar! And we all know God is not a liar.

So God in His infinite wisdom made a way. Someone had to take the wrath of the almighty God in our stead. And it couldn't be someone who has sinned, because they would have deserved the wrath and it wouldn't change a thing. If any man was ever to be saved there had to be a perfect innocent sacrifice made. This sacrifice could not be just a man, He had to be FULLY man, but not JUST man. The sacrifice had to be God Himself, because if God poured His wrath out on an innocent man it would be unjust of God, but if it's God incarnate as a man He can give up His own life.

And so it happened God did come to earth and live as a man. He lived a life pleasing to the Father. He did not sin once He lived PERFECTLY never once doing ANYTHING wrong, from birth on up. God the Father loved Jesus the Son. He was His Son and He was well pleasing in the sight of God. The Father loved everything the Son did. God said to Him once "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." And again "This is my beloved Son, listen to Him." The Son drew His life from the Father, and trusted the Father with His whole life. The Son receieved from the Father everything He asked and the Father graciously gave it in abundance.

Well it happened while the Son loved the Father and the Father loved the Son, the Father crushed the Son and poured all of His wrath and anger out on the Son. All of the anger reserved for sin, all of the hate, and wrath God had for it, He poured it out in full on His Son. And turned His back on His Holy innocent Son. And the Son cried "Abba! (father) Abba! Why have you forsaken me!!!" Can you see it? The Son who has had perfect communion with God up until now, done nothing wrong, now in His greatest hour of need, suffering a Roman Crucifix, had is father abandon Him. I see a Son weeping for communion with His Father, but His Father lashing out in anger! This is the cup the Son asked the night before to pass from Him, but He said, "Not my will, but Yours." He was willing to do the Fathers will even past death. He did the Fathers will even though it ment seperation from Him.

Now this holy One has been slain, He drank the full cup of the wrath of the Almighty. He died on a cross and then rose again three days later so now I can walk in newness of life. God has chosen some to be forgiven. And on those He no longer looks at their wicked sinful lives, He looks at the holy innocent lamb, and he takes all of that righteousness and rests it on them. I fall under that category, God has saved me. He no longer looks at my sin, He looks at His Son, as if I have lived that life. And the riches that Jesus Christ deserved are given to me. And the Father will never forsake me as He did His Son. All the righteousness that was in Christ is credited to me as if I lived it!!! He saved me!!! It was of no works of my own. He saved me!!! The innocent lamb has taken the full blunt of the wrath of God, and HE SAVED ME!