Broken
All of life is with suffering and death. These days are filled with a feeling of trembling in my spirit resisting depths of feeling what the Lord must have felt as He grew into a man, described in Isaiah as a man of sorrows. Can we see the infinite depth of His suffering in order that we may have life? Did we forget that in our suffering that we have One who experienced everything we experience in order that we may find hope in Him. There is no greater suffering, no greater compassion, no greater love expressed anywhere in the world.
And the sorrow that He must feel when He sees how we hurt and destroy each other.What is the gain in it all? Then we come to standing in the midst of the storm, to find our way to be steadfast on the Rock, being strong in weakness, having vision in the midst of turmoil. It is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel that is Christ, Who waits with such compassion that His heart breaks when ours breaks. A gentleness which He longs for us to know and experience.
My God, You give us only what we can handle. My God, only You know the depth ofthis understanding. Forgive us for being so short sighted with You and with each other. How it must grieve You.
You do understand.
Isaiah 53:3 He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at him and people turned away. We looked down on him, thought he was scum.___The Messageor
NIV ___He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
His suffering and love, even in the movie 'The Passion' did not captured the depth of Who He Is or what He did for us.
For centuries even the greatest master artists could not even depict this depth, even within magnificent works of art.
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We were there with Him as we are with Him now and will be forever.
If we choose to remember we must never forget.
Video & Song
'Were You There' Johnny Cash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e3Z0EW60Gc&feature=related
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