Because of God's great love,He gave something which meant more to Him than anything He had with Him in eternity.His Son!Because He knew that the wages of our sin would result in death-He gave!Because He loved us more than any other creature created -He gave.His forgiveness of our sins became grounded when He allowed the nails to be hammered through his hands.He canceled the record that contained the chareges against us.Freedom from Sin-Our sins are taken away from us,wiped clean away,to start on a new clean slate.

He allowed the crown of thorns to be pushed deep into His head so that we could be free from our labour on earth producing thorns and thistles as was the curse.He reversed the curse of sickness on our lives by allowing the whip to gash His flesh.

I cannot imagine, actually, that Jesus could have experienced spiritual separation from the Father without at the same time experiencing physical and emotional pain. That is the definition of hell, to be separated from God and the resulting pain such separation causes.

But I think the other thing to consider is that if Jesus would only have experienced spiritual separation and there was no way to observe his suffering, we would not have had the assurance we need that God has fully taken on our pain, has been accustomed to pain all our existence, and embraced that pain in such a way that He redeemed the experience. We suffer so much exactly because we are made in God’s image, but we sometimes think that He is somehow exempt from pain. The cross has forever put that myth to rest. We still cause God pain when we “grieve the Holy Spirit” (Ephesians 4:30). We can come to see that God is in pain when we go through physical and emotional pain ourselves.