God's Owed Too Much

You should have watched God when Lucifer sinned;
Drunk with Him the potion of treachery;
Seen Him as Adam broke what could not mend;
Observe with Him men live in lechery!
Wept with Him when He condemned those He made,
For squandering love never seen before;
You would've shrunk from His face's pain displayed
As the cross reared and His own Son it bore!
Turn His story about; let you be God:
Mark well how you in His place might have stood
Under the sorrow He was forced to trod.
Forgive who killed His Son? Only God could!
Hold His name high o'er the shambles we've made;
God's owed too much ever to be repaid!

God may have turned His face from Jesus dying on the cross, for the Bible says that He hates sin and cannot abide to look at it. Not that His Son had sinned even once in His life as a man, nor was He guilty of Adam's sin, for Mary, his mother, remained a virgin. Then why might God have seen sin when looking at Jesus? Because He took our sins as His. Jesus cried out,
"My God! My God! Why have You forsaken Me?" (Mark 15:34)

But God may not have turned His face, because if you look up Psalm 22, you will find these words of Jesus is the first line of the Psalm. Since the Jews were familiar with singing that Psalm in the synagogue, and they knew the words were those of the Messiah, Jesus might have said them as a last word of witness to them that He was really God come to deliver them from the hands of Satan.

When Jesus died, the sun refused to shine, and the 30-foot high curtain that guarded the Holy of Holies in the temple split in two from top to bottom. This was to inform the Jews that from this point on every believer has free access to God. Only one person, the high priest, was ever allowed to pass into the Holiest place before the crucifixion, and only once a year. If you believe in Jesus, you can talk directly to God. However, the Jews didn't get the message; they sewed the curtain back together.