He was made sin for us who know no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. God laid the sin of the world, your sin, on His Son made Man. He nailed Him to the wood of the cross and raised Him high for all the world to see. Here we see the image of our sin and God's wrath. The Son hangs dead, forsaken by His Father, damned in our place.
People turn away and hide their faces.
And yet here, precisely here, we see our healing and God's mercy. By His wounds we are healed. There by the grace of God goes He for us. The cross is the pole that raises up God's banner of salvation, His flag in the battlefield. Never has wood been so regally adorned as the wood to which the body of Jesus was nailed.