The Suffering God?

Well for this posting I am to follow in Dot Gosling's footsteps and become a rebel. What we were asked to do was blog about 'Does God allow people to suffer?' but I want to alter the question around and ask......

'How much does God Suffer?'

Ok so it’s a pretty safe bet that Jesus felt immense pain during his last days on earth and not only extreme physical pain but surely immense emotional pain as well. In his moment of need he was betrayed and denied by his friends but worst of all his own Father seemed to turn away, Jesus was scared, hurting and on his own.

But how did God feel?
Well let’s start at the beginning. God creates Man & Woman and gives them everything they will ever need for eternity to make them happy, content & totally satisfied. But that’s not enough they want more! So Adam & Eve go scrumping in Eden whilst at the same time kicking God in the teeth, and I am pretty certain it broke Gods heart.

But Calvary, that’s where the real pain kicks in, watching his only son, his precious child being beaten, flogged and mocked by us. Can you imagine the complete heartbreak that God felt watching his innocent child being nailed to a cross and left to die, by us.

So why did he let it happen? Well to put it simply after all we had done, after all the hurt we had given him, after the countless times we had rejected him, he still loved us! Amazing. That’s right he loves us more than we could ever imagine, he always did and always will. He loved us enough to watch his son be treated and killed like a criminal so that we can be reconciled to him.

Yet even after all he has done, after the amazing sacrifices he has made, we still (me included) sometimes doubt that he loves us and I am sure that this breaks his heart too.