You can take a magnifying glass and concentrate the rays of the sun into such a sharp point of intensity that it burns things. Imagine, then, a massive moral magnifying glass through which passes, not the sun’s rays, but God’s righteous anger at all the wrongdoing in our lives; at the selfishness and the hatred, at the lies and dishonesty, at the deceit and most of all the way we have ignored and misused God in the world. Picture all of God’s anger focused and coming down through a massive moral magnifying glass with a terrible intensity until it hits one man in one point of history with such agony, that he cries out, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ That is how God saves us from the coming wrath. That’s how he saves us from hell through the cross for heaven. – Sin must be paid for; either at the cross or you pay for it yourself, but it must be paid for!

Rico Tice

Source: Rico Tice, Man To Man… About God, p.72