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1025 Jesus' suffering on the cross....

July 26, 1939: Book 19

The greatness of Jesus' suffering on the cross is not yet fully regocnized by people. The incomprehensible love for His earthly children moved the eternal deity to embody Himself in a human being on earth in order to make the hitherto unbridgeable gulf between the father and the children on earth passable, in order to show these children a path that leads to Him. Now divine love itself has built the bridge through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ.... The lord suffered so unspeakably on the cross as a human being, He tasted all the agonies of the death on the cross, and this out of the deepest love for humanity.... The love of which humanity was bereft moved Him to die for this humanity and thereby bring it redemption from the deepest guilt of sin. Words cannot express the pain and agony that Jesus endured on the cross. He suffered inhuman pain because His body was in complete harmony with everything that was pure and clear, bright and light due to the unification of the soul with the spirit.... And this body was dragged down into the dark realm by dark violence.... Those who laid hands on it were sinful, dark creatures, driven by demons to cruel behaviour. The fear of the pure soul, which had become love through and through, was immeasurably great and the touch of these demons working in hatred was indescribably agonizing.... If only a human being like any other had to endure this death, the work of redemption would not have been of such significance.... But Jesus' agony exceeded that of a human being a thousandfold, since it was not only the body that suffered, but far more the soul, because it stood in the light and was deeply humiliated by the darkness. No human being on earth can appreciate the full extent of the work of redemption; only in the state of light does he grasp the greatness of it and the unspeakable love that moved the son of man to take the most severe suffering upon Himself. And humanity holds His death in such low esteem that it does not shy away from relinquishing its faith in Jesus Christ as saviour of the world. And it is not aware of the immeasurable sin it thereby takes upon itself and how nothing else can offer it a substitute for this humanly greatest work of love which was offered for humanity....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers