As I’ve been going through my suffering the last few months losing my wonderful love of my life, my beloved husband, it’s been excruciating painful most times, leaving a big black empty dark hole in my heart. I haven’t been able to eat properly or sleep properly.I’ve been sick a lot. I still feel mentally, emotionally, and physically drained most the time. Its a wound that seems like it just won’t heal. Just as you think it’s starting to heal, the scab peels off and that wound is like it’s fresh and raw again and you feel that agony once more but really this is nothing compared to what Jesus Christ went through for us. He went through worse pain and suffering than any of us will ever go through. His suffering can actually help our suffering.
This week is Holy Week leading up to Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday when Jesus Christ was crucified and then was resurrected the third day. We think of how He suffered before and during the time when He was nailed to that cross. The Bible says He was hated and rejected by men. He was beaten and spat upon and bled and died. He went through all of that for us to take away our sin. He did this because of His love for us.
Romans 5:8 King James Version (KJV)
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Isaiah 53 King James Version (KJV)
53 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Please take the time to watch this video and ponder the pain and suffering Jesus most likely experienced. As you can tell, it was no picnic.
I don’t mean to down play but we all go through various forms of pain and suffering in our lifetime but really I believe if we take a close look at our sufferings and remember what Christ had endured for us I believe with His love and His grace He has for us, we can make it through what ever we are going through if we put our trust in Him. I know for the last few months I have had to trust Him day by day to meet my needs for that day and He has been faithful and has come through for me. Like I’ve been saying my pain and suffering hasn’t been it a cake walk but remembering what He has done for us by suffering all that pain and anguish mine is nothing in comparison. Whatever pain and suffering,or persecution I may have to go through, I know in the end it will have been worth it all.
He bled and died for us. He came as a man, knew no sin and yet He was the sacrificial lamb who paid the price for our sins so that we don’t have to. Only through Him do we have hope. Without Him we have no hope. If we believe in Him, He promises that He will come again to get us and we will live in heaven with Him forever.
John 3:16 King James Version (KJV)
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
2 Corinthians 5:8 King James Version (KJV)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
So the next few days please let’s take time from our own pain and sufferings to reflect and remember the pain and suffering Christ had gone through for us. The good news is that He is alive today and is sitting at the right hand of the Father waiting for us to accept Him as Lord of our life and He wants to help us to go through whatever hardship we are suffering. He hasn’t promised us a life free of trials and tribulations but He does truly love us does want to help. He knows our pain. He sympathizes with us. We just need to call on Him. He’s helping me and He’ll help you too. .Whatever pain and suffering,or persecution I have to endure, I’m in good hands, it won’t last forever, it’s only temporary and in the end it will have been worth it all. One day I will receive my reward of seeing my Savior face to face and living with Him in paradise for eternity plus I will be reunited with my beloved husband and the rest of my loved ones as well.
I am truly grateful for what He has done for me.
Here To Eternity 