Man of Suffering

In the extremes of your pain and the depths of your suffering, the Man of Suffering has gone before you and is there with you now. By His wounds you are forever healed.

May's Message, Day 13:

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. Isaiah 53:3-5 NIV

We do not walk the road of pain and suffering alone. The Man of Suffering has gone that way before us. Not that He removes the pain or suffering, but just as He had to suffer and die to complete His Father's task, He knows the way through it all and is there hand in hand always with us. He is there in the fiery furnace to protect us from harm. He is there in the lions den to seal up their hungry mouths. He is there to calm the storm of the sea and walk upon it's waters. He is there to feed the hungry, heal the sick, give sight to the blind, bind up the brokenhearted, and bring hope to the lost. He brings those who are dead inside back to life. Pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities, the Man of Suffering was there, and by His wounds we are forever healed.