Jordan Copas Grace (The Cup) lyrics

And He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. The Father made Jesus who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
This passage reveals to us the substitutionary act that had to happen for us to receive God's righteousness. I cannot even begin to understand what it means that Jesus, who was fully God, perfect and holy, could become sin, but that is what Scripture says. He became who we were so that we could become who He is.This was Jesus' cup. He was in such agony at this prospect that His sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. Because sin is easy and natural for us, we cannot begin to understand what He went through. The perfect and holy son of God was agonizing over the thought of becoming sin and being separated from the Father. Yet Jesus loved us so much that He was willing to be our substitute and become sin - everything that was opposite of His nature. Perhaps one way to understand, to a small degree, is to take some attributes of Jesus and consider their opposites.
We know that Jesus is love. Yet on that cross He experienced complete, consuming hatred. He was despised and rejected.
Jesus is the Light of the World, yet on that cross He experienced total darkness, a lack of understanding, and everything associated with sin and evil.
Scripture tells us that Jesus is the Prince of Peace. Yet on that cross, the exact opposite of peace consumed Him: total frustration, anxiety, fear, hopelessness, desperation.
Jesus Christ is Truth. Yet on that cross everything became confusing, inconsistent, and illogical. Nothing made sense.
Jesus said I am the Bread of Life. Yet on that cross He experienced emotional and spiritual hunger: longing, craving, yearning, complete dissatisfaction.
And Jesus said I am the Way. Yet on that cross He felt frustratingly lost, with no direction. He was uncertain, perplexed, bewildered, full of doubts, empty, and confused.

Christ is our security, yet on that cross He was consumed with fear, insecurity, and overwhelming loneliness. We all have felt lonely at times, but He was lonely to a degree we cannot even imagine. Jesus Christ who had experienced the completeness of a perfect relationship within the Trinity, was now totally forsaken and alone.
Jesus Christ is mercy. In becoming sin for us, He suffered the ultimate in abuse, oppression, and torture. Any cruelty ever devised or imagined by man, He endured on the cross.
And Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ is just. Yet on that cross He endured unfairness, corruption, dishonesty, and all the emotions that go along with receiving unjust treatment. If the Roman trial had been handled fairly, Christ would have been set free. He did not deserve the cross, but He wanted to be there because He chose to stand in our place. Isaiah said He was like a lamb led to the slaughter, not uttering a sound. Perhaps Jesus was silent on the cross because had He even hinted for help, all of heaven would have responded.
On the cross Jesus endured incredible pain. Crucifixion was a brutal means of execution, deliberately slow and painful. Every joint was pulled out of its socket from the weight of the body. Jesus' physical pain and death fulfilled prophesy and were part of God's plan to bring us salvation. But more important than His physical death was that Jesus died spiritually when He was separated from His Father. His physical pain on the cross is a stark visual picture that helps us understand, to a small degree, the dreadfulness of spiritual death. One purpose for the pain we personally experience may be to give us a glimpse of what He went through on the cross as He died for us, both physically and spiritually. Our pain should remind us of His great love for us.
While taking our place on the cross, Jesus, because of His complete separation from His Father, cried, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? This is the only time Jesus ever called His Father "God," because at this point God was not in the role of Father, but of righteous judge. As judge, He placed in Jesus the sins of every one of us (Me You) every sin and act of rebellion we have ever committed or ever will commit. Because Jesus Christ on the cross called His Father "God," we can now call God our "Father." What amazing grace!