JESUS is the answer to the question of suffering. as one philosopher said, “JESUS is there sitting beside us in the lowest places of our lives.” are you broken? JESUS was broken like bread for you. are you despised? JESUS was despised and rejected by men. do you cry out that you can’t take anymore? the bible says JESUS was a man of sorrow. HE was acquainted with grief. did someone betray you? JESUS was sold out for a measly thirty pieces of silver. did you love someone and then have them walk out on you. JESUS loved and then at the end HIS best friend denied him and walked away. does GOD enter into your own private hell? yes, HE does. yes, HE will. corrie ten boom writes this while setting in a nazi concentration camp, “no matter how deep our darkness, GOD is deeper still.”
the really amazing thing is this. JESUS CHRIST is not just some friend who can merely empathize with you and sit beside you in your suffering. if you have put your trust in JESUS CHRIST, he lives inside of you and therefore your suffering is HIS suffering and your pain is HIS pain and your tears mingle with HIS tears. HE says, “I’ll give you the peace and I will give you the very courage that you need.”
psalm 34.18 (niv), the LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. are you crushed in spirit? GOD says, “I offer to save you from this, to draw good from it and bring you to heaven.”
just a thought from the front porch…
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