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He said to himself, "I have taken them up upon My shoulders, and none can
hurt them now, neither can they wander to destruction. I am bearing their
sin, and they shall never come into condemnation. The penalty of their
guilt has been laid on Me that it may never be laid on them. I am an
effectual and efficient Substitute for them. I am bearing their sin,
that they may never bear My Father's righteous anger."
His love to them made it a JOY for him to feel every lash of the scourge
of justice! His love to them made it a delight that the nails should pierce his
hands and feet! His love to them made it a JOY for him that his heart should be broken with the absence of his Father, God.
Even "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" when the depths of its woe have been sounded, will be found to have pearls of joy in its caverns.
No shout of triumph can equal that cry of grief, because our Lord joyed
to bear even the forsaking by his Father, for the sin of his chosen
ones, whom he had loved from before the foundation of the world.
Oh, you cannot understand it except in a very feeble measure!
Spurgeon