On Intercession

Intercession is a way in which we share with Jesus in bearing God’s anger at the sin and evil in the world, so that like Moses we stand in the breach on behalf of the world (cf. Ps. 106:23). It is a way in which we share God’s anguish over the world and it is a way in which we enter the fight against evil powers.
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Beware of trivializing intercession, for whoever would intercede must pass through the Cross of God’s angered love. Since the Cross is an eschatological reality, anticipating the end, our intercessions have about them the expectation that this experience of anger will not last forever, even though it may seem to be so. Cranmer’s instinct about the Litany and the Confession as places to speak of God’s anger and wrath was right.

– from A Vision of Wholeness, by John Gaden (1938–1990)