It has been a while since I've posted anything. I have recently been reading in the Infinite Atonement by Tad R. Callister and I thought I should post this it is about our loving Heavenly Father and His love for us and his Son.
“suppose at your command you could release your son from the exquisite pain that has caused him to cry” father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me”. which of us could resist such a request from a son who had never erred, never complained, never asked anything for himself— who all his life had honored and obeyed and served us, whose only thoughts were for others, and now in this moment of supreme agony plead for help, just his once, for himself? would not our hearts have been bursting with compassion? would not that cry of pathos, “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me,” offered by the purest of all beings, the most obedient of all sons, so overpower us as to break our hearts and weaken our resolve? how much could this most loving o all fathers stand? but the words of the messianic the tender heart of the most loving of all fathers: “why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?” (psalm 22:1). would the overwhelming emotion of the moment have so flooded our powers of reason, so diluted our vision that we would have yielded and release him? would we in our wisdom have sent the legion of angels to heal the bleeding pores and remove the nails from his torn flesh? fortunately, even with his incomparable love for his Son, our Father in Heaven did not relent. Paul paid tribute to our Father, who chose not to exercise his saving power on behalf of his Only Begotten Son, so that we also might be saved: “He… spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all” (Romans 8:32). Truly, “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son”, or as John later observed, “in this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him” (1John 4:9). Why did God not release his Son? because he knew there was no other way to save the rest of his children. Christ was our only hope, our only means to salvation. Elder Melvin J. Ballard, with a tender insight that seemed to penetrate the veil, commented on the father’s choice not to rescue his son: “God heard the cry of his Son in that moment of great grief and agony, in the garden when, it is said, the pores of his body opened and drops of blood stood upon him, and he cried out: ‘Father if thou be willing, emove this cup from me.’ I ask you, what father and mother could stand by and listen to the cry of their children in distress, in this world and not render aid and assistance? … we cannot stand by and listen to those cites without its touching our hearts. The Lord has not given us the power to save our own. He has given us faith, and we submit to the inevitable, but he had the power to save, and he loved his Son, and he could have saved him… He saw that Son finally upon Calvary; he saw his body stretched our upon the wooden cross; he saw the cruel nails driven through hands and feet, and the lows that broke the skin, tore the flesh, and let out the life’s blood of his Son. He looked upon that. In any case our Father, the knife was not stayed, but it fell, and the life’s blood of his Beloved Son went out. His Father looked on with great grief and agony over his Beloved Son, until there seems to have come a moment when even our Savior cried out in despair: ‘My God, My God, why has thou forsaken me?’ In that hour I think I can see our dear Father behind the veil looking upon these dying struggles until even he could not endure it any longer; and, like a mother who bids farewell to her dying child, has to be taken out of the room, so as not to look upon the last struggles, so he bowed his head, and hid in some part of his universe, his great heart almost breaking for the love hat he had for his Son. oh, in that moment when he might have saved his Son, I thank him and praise him that he did not fail us, for he had not only the love of his Son in mind, but he also had love for us."