What Love Is This

It hit me while sitting in Thursday Night Worship earlier this year, this bi-weekly low key praise and worship time led by three of my very musically gifted friends. I was sitting there, singing and thinking, when suddenly I realized there must have been this moment when God looked down at us from heaven, turned to Jesus and said, "You do realize I'm going to have to kill you to save them, right?" And Jesus looked at God and said, "I do, and I am totally OK with that." Clearly, it probably didn't happen in such a simplistic way, God being omniscient and all, but in concept that is exactly what took place. It was Christ's joy to die for us. Who does that?