How can I not be moved...

How can I not be deeply affected when I consider the gospel? How can I not be undone when i look at the cross. Let me give one example.

As I re-read the account of the death of Jesus Christ upon the cross, I come across this verse in Luke 23 --

And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!”
Luke 23:35

But in truth, he could save himself. He could have just come down off that cross at any time. He could have called down legions of angels to destroy all how were opposing him that day. He could have called for a plague of worms to consume each person who, the night before, had cried out for Barabbas, and chanted "crucify him". He could have saved himself, but he could not have saved himself and saved us.

So he saved us.

And I ponder that. What, in me, was worth saving. What in me was worth the life of the one the angels cried, "Holy, Holy, Holy". My life, apart from God, is a shambles. Anything that I have done that is of lasting value, was done thru me by the Holy Spirit.

But he loved me anyway.

And again, I am undone.

John Piper, Albert Mohler, Charles Spurgeon