By Lee Strobel
Jesus is there, sitting beside us in the lowest places of our lives. Are we broken? He was broken, like bread, for us. Are we despised? He was despised and rejected of men. Do we cry out that we can’t take it anymore? He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Do people betray us? He was sold out Himself. Are our precious relationships broken? He too loved and was rejected. Do people turn from us? They hid their faces from Him as from a leper.
Does He descend into all our hells? Yes He does. He is the One we love to hate, yet to us He has chosen to return love. Every tear we shed become His tear. He may not wipe them away yet, but He will.
In this real world of pain, how could one worship God who was immune to it? He laid aside His immunity to pain, entered our world of flesh and blood, tears and death. He suffered for us and our sufferings has become more manageable in the light of His.
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