This picture makes me think of the day Jesus was crucified. The sky seems so angry, full of a holy hatred of sin. It seems to magnify the fear of the Lord.The depth of His holiness, and wrath is portrayed in everyday nature, we simply don't wake up early enough to see it. 
The sky that day must have been particularly grim. The people traveling the roads as usual, with no knowledge of the travesty about to take place. Pilot knew, as did Judas. The air had to be thicker, as though the people had to cut through it as they similarly cut Jesus' heart with their sin. And still people have no knowledge of what God really did for them, and if they do then they simply don't care. They sit in their pews and stab him as they take "the body of christ." They serve the Americian Jesus. A god who has no limits, you can pray to him and he will fulfill your every whim. When will America wake up. God IS HOLY, He hates sin, and cannot stand to be in its presance. Leonard Ravenhill says "the world thinks that God loves them but hates their sin, NO, He hates you for commiting it as well." We don't want to hear this, because then we might actually have to hate sin ourself, and that would mean we must be poor in spirit, realizing our abhorant sin, and repenting from it. If only America would see the truth of the cross, and all that happened those 3 days.
You are completly correct! The Word says God turned His face away from Jesus, WHY?- because He had sin on Him and in Him. The entire worlds sin was placed on Jesus that day. I think sometimes people think they can get away with "little stuff" because they look at that picture and say- "Well, the WHOLE WORLD'S sin was on Jesus." NO, NO, NO! even if Jesus died for just one person who had only told one lie in his entire life- god STILL would have turned his face because GOD HATES SINNERS AND IS KILLING THEM EVERY DAY AND SENDING THEM TO HELL. By the way, in Romans it says "if" you sin, not "when" you sin!!!! Then you have an advocate- Jesus.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah! THANK YOU for saying that.. I've been pondering that myself lately. The whole line about "Hate the sin, love the sinner" just doesn't seem to fly. It's a lot more complicated than that! The bible says that those who sin are our ENEMIES! And His as well! And yes, we are supposed to love and pray for our enemies.. But we're too busy justifying our own sin to realize that first, we are His enemies, and second, that those around us are too. I just realized that if I can't justify my sin.. how can I justify theirs???
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