When we find ourselves in the place of crisis, a place of need, a place of disappointment, questioning God, we need to know that God is a God of power AND compassion, who has not merely touched a coffin on our behalf, but he has mounted a cross; he has not only felt our hurt, but he has taken our lashes, our spikes, our mocking and abuse, our sin and death upon himself. And he has not merely restored boy to mother, but he has reconciled the created to the Creator