“Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows…” Is.53.4 ESV
If it were not enough for Christ to bear our sins, He also bore our sorrows. If we believe these words, then the disappointment of parents, the disillusions of youth, the despair of every lonely person, indeed all the weight of human grief, is felt by His tender heart. No sadness in all the earth escapes Him, no tear unnoticed. Jesus wept at the tomb of Lazarus, surely He weeps beside us at the grave of those we love. Man of sorrows is etched on His brow. Jesus not only carries our griefs, imagine the multitude of His own. If no sparrow falls to the ground without His notice, think how great His pain must be to share even the suffering of animals. But Jesus is doing much more than just feeling our tears, He is mixing them with His own and doing so, changing them as acid is neutralized by salt. He bottles them one tear at a time and turns them somehow to glory. 1/28/2009 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
