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Embracing Suffering: Lessons from Jesus, the Man of Sorrows
In this episode, we explore the prophetic words of Isaiah 5… (visit YouTube for more)
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I think sometimes we expect to be treated better than Jesus was treated. But people today are no different from people then. Listen to what the prophet Isaiah said about Jesus, foretelling the Messiah. Isaiah chapter 53, verse three. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised and we esteemed him not.
This is a picture of the Christ. This is what truly happened to Jesus. He was a man of sorrows. He had grief. He had great suffering, especially towards the end of his life. He had great compassion and empathy with others. He felt their suffering too.
He was despised. He was rejected. He was abused as he went to the cross. And yet he was the greatest man who ever lived, and he remains the greatest Saviour of all.
And so if the greatest person can be treated like that, should we be treated any better? You know, the apostles often say that they don’t feel worthy to receive the same kind of sufferings that Jesus received, that we are not good enough to suffer in the way that Jesus suffered. It should be worse for us.
I don’t how we can get into this frame of mind other than by spending a lot of time with Jesus and getting to know him and appreciate who he is. Because my friends in this life, we are going to be acquainted with grief. And from time to time we will be despised. But know that we walk with a Saviour who has been through the worst that humanity could throw at him. And he came out the other side triumphant, and we share in that triumph.
He bought victory for us all over sin over the grave. He won us life eternal. So there may be sorrow now, but in the future world, when God has made everything new, every tear will be wiped away by the Man of Sorrows.
