“I stopped the walkers game. So why does my intimate vibrate like a harp and my heart for Quir-Heres?Isaiah 16: 10. 11
“I have stopped the conveyor belt,” here he refers to the Lord’s judgment of Moab and how he silenced the cries of the harvest heard in his fields. What still baffles me about this verse (and others in 16. 9 and 15. 5, just as Jeremiah 48. 3-32, 35-36) is like the Lord?Is it totally free to do whatever you want?How is that possible? The only similar thing we have for this in our experience is when someone is forced, under certain circumstances, to do something they know will be painful for them (for example, a pregnancy in which the mother or baby, or both, will die?). But that can’t be the case Dios. No is attached to anything, your will?Is your sovereign free will the law (Salt 115:3). And yet we see him doing something that makes him cry deep in his soul, soaking him with his tears to which he himself judged (v. 9). It’s a dreadful language; What are we going to do with this?
- At least we can say that God’s emotional life is not like ours.
- In absolute and sovereign freedom.
- He chooses to cry with sincere sorrow and compassion for those whom he breaks in his sacred wrath.
- Aren’t your tears or destruction false.
- False.
- Or display?both derive from their “intimacy”.
- Both showing the beauty of their character.
- Is it a mystery? But the one who opens his heart to us on Calvary.
- Yes.
- Because on the cross we see the Father crushing his enemies in the body of his Beloved.
- We see the Son willingly taking our sin and offering to be crushed.
- And we see the Spirit as the means of this crush.
- And simultaneously.
- On the cross.
- Do we see the Son soaking the earth with his tears and his blood.
- Just like the Father?we can guess by imbuing the Son (and us in him) with tears of love in the Spirit.
- Yes.
- God’s sacred wrath and the cry of compassion are not contradictory.
- They are not contradictory passions.
- And we know it because they sing in harmony on Calvary.
What does it mean to have a God crying, not out of weakness or incapacity, but for a sovereign will that chooses to cry sincerely for and with his creatures, what do God’s tears mean?Are you crying for the nations now?Are you crying now for those on whom you pour out your wrath?Or have all your tears for humanity been reached on the cross?All his cries are sueded in the agony of the beloved Son when he became the pagan nations, when he became the sinner, how did the love that wept when he shed his wrath become the one who wept beneath spread his wrath?
Can we submit to the weight and wonder of God’s weeping?May his name be sanctified.