Christ

When we sin it’s as if we have charged up to heaven, called God to come forth and then hurled at him the filthiness that our sin is. And then, God appeared on the battlements of heaven in full majestic regalia, and called up his siege engines and catapults with smoldering weapons of hell-fire (as it appeared to you), and then they started firing one after another, and you backed off and cowered down (the noise was earth-shaking) and waited to be destroyed, except nothing happened. You looked up and saw that God was firing his weapons off to the side at an unobtrusive hill. You could make out an execution in progress. So, you snuck over to see as heaven’s lightnings and thundering sounded in your ears. One of the victims cast his eyes upon you and you ventured to ask, “what are you doing here?” He replied, “This is for you, I’m taking your place.”