God the Father is passionate God, passionate Father.
First: God the Father is passionate towards His son Jesus Christ. In both Matthew 3:17 during Jesus baptism and Matthew 17:5 the mount of transfiguration we hear the voice of the Father saying about Jesus: This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. With other words the Father is saying: this is the one whom I love the most, He is the most excellent, He is above any other, He is the most cherished one, He is the one to be listen to and one to be worshiped. The Father exalts the Son to the highest place of honor because He loves Him with a strong, passionate love and He has given all things into His hand!
Second: God the Father is passionate towards you and me!
In His high priestly prayer in John 17 Jesus while talking to the Father says that He (the Father) loved them (the disciples, or us) even as You (the Father) have loved me (Jesus). Or to put it in simple words: The way the Father loves the son Jesus Christ so He the Father loves you. You are always on His mind, you are always on His heart, His eyes are always set upon you.
In Ephesians 1 Paul goes on to say that: even before He made the world He loved us and chose us in Christ Jesus to be holy and without fault in His eyes....He adopted us into His family...and this gave Him great pleasure.
You are the Father’s pleasure, you are the one in whom He finds great delight and His heart is passionately going after you!
He created you in His own image, in His own likeness, He mold you and shaped you!
Compassion:
God revealed Himself to Moses as Lord compassionate and gracious slow to anger and rich in love. In Psalm 86 King David repeats this same attributes of God and Psalm 145:9 says that He had compassion on all he has made.
The greatest expression of the Father’s compassionate heart is found in Him sending His only son to the earth to be offered as a sacrifice for our sin's so that we would be redeemed and brought into union and everlasting fellowship with the Father.
For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son so whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. Many times I read this verse with a heart that is not moved at all, like it was nothing.
When Jesus was on that cross, when he said: Father, Father why have you forsaken me, He was calling out for the Father’s mercy but He didn’t receive it so that you and me can experience the mercy of the Father. Jesus was calling out for the compassion of the Father that He knew so well but he didn’t receive it so that you and me can experience the compassion of the Father.
If you read through the New Testament you will notice that Jesus lived for the eyes of the Father and they were always set upon Him. Jesus lived for the voice of the Father and every time he spoke to the Father He knew that He hears Him and He answers Him.
But when He was on that cross, when He called the name of the Father, Jesus was looking for His eyes, His face, that one look of the Father but he couldn’t find it. Jesus on the cross He was looking to hear the voice of the Father but he didn’t hear it.
And as Jesus was speaking out His final words; Father, Father why have you forsaken me, as he breath out His final breath the Bible says that the earth became dark and shook. As we were worshiping on Friday morning few weeks ago I was thinking of this and felt like that moment of darkness was a moment of God the Father feeling the pain and agony of turning His face away from the son...the earth shaking was nothing else but the sound of the Father’s heart being broken as your sin and my sin were laid upon His son and our punishment was put on Him.
This is the compassion of the Father for you and for me, that he would not withhold His only son, that He would allow for the son to experience the rejection, so that we would be embraced, that he would allow Himself to remove his eyes and withhold His voice from the Son so that we would experience the look of His eyes and hear His voice!
Powerful insights Igor, thank you
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