We like to think that ways to participate in God's nature are the way of joyful victory over all adversity, or barring that the way of detached superiority. But both victory and detachment grow our feelings of superiority and pride and that poisons us. So the humble way of the suffering servant makes us more like God in this wrecked world and Jeremiah is a man after God's heart too.
"The Father turns His face away" is a popular line but I think they read too much into "he became sin who knew no sin" when they try to model relationships of the Trinity on human courtrooms. You can think of the cross that way, but that's only one facet. This is how God already feels.
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