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Tremblingly He ventured into the mental and

emotional suffering which is inherent in

wrong doing, and which no human being has

ever had to face on his own account due to

the shielding veil of God’s mercy erected in

his conscience. It was erected as a buffer

between God’s love-infused righteousness

and man’s self-absorbed sinfulness, to

preserve him from sin’s full effect.

It is this bridgeless chasm that Jesus sensed

in His inmost soul was moving Him to the

wrong side, the side of darkness, by taking

the sin of humanity into Himself. “He [God

the Father] had made Him [God the Son] to

be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might

be made the righteousness of God in Him” 2

Corinthians 5:21.

But beholding our impending fate, Christ

breathes only submission: “If this cup may

not pass away from Me, except I drink it, Thy

will be done.”