19/04/2019
“MAN OF SORROWS”
(Adversity In His Own City)
Let it never be forgotten that Jesus came to this world, lived a holy life, died a martyr’s death, resurrected from the grave, ascended to heaven, and intercedes for us. He is not unacquainted with our grief (Heb. 14:15). He was “a man of sorrows”—“it is not ‘a sorrowful man,” but ‘a man of sorrows,’ as if He were made up of sorrows, and they were constituent elements of His being” (CS). Anyone who wanted to know the definition of sorrow looked at Him (Isa. 53).
He was born for adversity. He lived in a borrowed home in His own city. No man has ever been mocked, ridiculed, and tortured like Him. His own brothers didn’t believe in Him. His own countrymen didn’t accept Him. His own trusted friend denied Him. His own disciple betrayed Him.
The one who created the ocean of waters sat on a well and pleaded; “Give me water to drink” (John 4:7). The one who called the world into being with words found no word to defend Himself when He was falsely accused. The men He formed with His own hands were the same men who killed Him. The one who cured “a woman with an issue of blood” had no one to bind His bleeding wounds. There were no physician to attend to the Master Physician. The Son of God became the Son of Man. The Rich King became a Poor Servant (2 Cor. 8:9; Phil. 2:5-10). All men’s sorrows were His sorrows. Do you have any sorrow? “There is no sorrow on earth that heaven [Jesus] can’t heal”. God loves you!
