"Abandoned"

"Something isn’t adding up.

This wild exchange: You offer us,

I gave my worst; You gave Your blood.

Seems hard to believe

You’re telling me You chose the cross."

Verse 2:

"I just can’t get over it.

What kind of self-control is this?

You had angels at Your fingertips,

But on the cross, You remained.

I can’t repay that kind of love."

God created us, yet we continually disobey and fall short of His expectations. Despite our perpetual failures, does that mean we should continue doing whatever we want cause nothing's good anyways? By no means!! (Romans 6:15)

God manifested in Jesus Christ, fully divine and fully human, living a sinless life. Jesus, likened to sacrificial lambs of the Mosaic law, sins could be forgiven; Through blood sacrifice, people would sacrifice lambs or other animals they deemed to be "spotless." Jesus, nailed to the cross, (Mark 15) he endured humiliation and suffering, forsaken for our sake, Deuteronomy 31:6 and Matthew 27:46. 

"You had angels at Your fingertips,

But on the cross, You remained."

Jesus shows crazy self control and love for us, on the cross dude could've called down over 60 thousand angels to come and get him off the cross and obliterate everything in sight. Yet he just hung there. Seemingly helpless. 

"This wild exchange: You offer us,

I gave my worst; You gave Your blood."

His shed blood provides the pathway to forgiveness, available to all who believe in Him alone for salvation, Ephesians 2:8-9 says that our works, no matter how righteous/good they seem, cannot earn salvation; it is solely by His grace. Through Jesus' sacrifice, we find redemption and reconciliation with God, a show of the depth of His unfathomable love for humanity. A love we could never find in anyone or anything else.

We should be encouraged to live a life that mirrors the life of Jesus. A life of surrender, selflessness, of love, compassion. A life following God.

Inspired by the Song "Abandoned" by Benjamin William Hastings.