Identifying with the Man of Sorrows

[salt-n-light]

One thing that stood out for me this week, was listening to a sermon that mentioned the Passover scripture since Palm Sunday is around the corner. I learned that while He was being praised in His march, while people were yelling out " Hosannah in the Highest", spreading their clothes, Jesus was weeping over the city. Imagine the biggest celebration, and Jesus instead wept. (Luke 19)

I feel like that right now, seeing the realities of my situation, and despite being amongst situation worth celebrating, I grieve over my fate, of walking this life as a loner. In that, I'm at least learning to find some comfort being able to identify with the Man of Sorrows, who was acquainted with grief.

 

[R. Hartono]

Just give thanks to God in good or bad situation and put the Salvation of Jesus over our grief and pray for the people.
Matt 24:12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13 But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.…

Every day is tough, i could only thank God if i could face today, tomorrow i dont know.

 

[teresa]

why was jesus weeping?

 

[salt-n-light]

why was jesus weeping?

He knew that the same people praising Him would be the ones who would be yelling out to crucify Him. As much as He wants them to know salvation, He knew their hearts. It is almost like the cries of the prophets.He grieved for them, in the midst of the celebration.

Luke 19:37-44
37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;

38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.

39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.

40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

 

[faroukfarouk]

One thing that stood out for me this week, was listening to a sermon that mentioned the Passover scripture since Palm Sunday is around the corner. I learned that while He was being praised in His march, while people were yelling out " Hosannah in the Highest", spreading their clothes, Jesus was weeping over the city. Imagine the biggest celebration, and Jesus instead wept. (Luke 19)

I feel like that right now, seeing the realities of my situation, and despite being amongst situation worth celebrating, I grieve over my fate, of walking this life as a loner. In that, I'm at least learning to find some comfort being able to identify with the Man of Sorrows, who was acquainted with grief.

"See from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down.
Did e're such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown."

 

[Jeshu]

Isaiah 53 never spoke to me more clearly than when i linked my struggle with bad life with His. Much comfort to be had to find Jesus in the darkness of depression for He overcame that affliction as well.

Isaiah 53
Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.


Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.


He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
By oppressiona and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.


Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.