I believe that his death on the cross reveals the God who suffers for love instead of punishing the unloving, the God who lays down his life for his friends. In the words of W.H. Vanstone, set to a hymn that never fails to bring tears to my eyes, “Here is God: no monarch he, throned in easy state to reign; here is God, whose arms of love, aching, spent, the world sustain.”
