White Crucifixion - Marc Chagall - 1938
“When deeds of iniquity overwhelm us” we look to the Lord to forgive our transgressions and “save us from weak resignation to the evils we deplore”. (God of Grace and God of Glory - vs. 4 - LBW 415) The psalmist could not have imagined the awesome deed by which God would get the job done and so sings of God girded with might, whose strength established the mountains and silenced the roaring of the seas. But it was God in Christ Jesus who was overwhelmed by our transgressions as the One who established the mountains and silenced the seas struggled to climb a hill where with his last cry the whole world was stilled. But if that is where it ends it would hardly be a source of hope. As it is death could contain the One who established the earth and breaking free from the grip of the grave set us free as well so that we might be overwhelmed by grace and God might "cure your children’s warring madness and bend our will to your control.” (God of Grace and God of Glory vs.3)
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