Good morning, with wind, on this new day! Listening to the wonderful song "Midnight Cry", I think of the many midnight cries that have issued from me. I have yet to go home with that kind of midnight cry, but that does not mean God didn't hear me. Waking up to a headache is one of those tribulations in this life that can cause me to cry out around midnight. What seemed a good night's sleep is interrupted by pain in the noggin. This morning, I had to ask if Jesus suffered a headache. The temptation of course is to take points away from Him if He didn't suffer every possible ache or pain that we suffer. As we approach Good Friday this week, we are well reminded that our Lord suffered much worse.
Not only did Jesus suffer those things recorded in the gospels, but He also suffers along with all those who call on His name. Jesus suffered the punishment for our sins on the cross. I don't have to worry that Jesus might have suffered less than me, or somehow used His authority to cut himself some slack at some point in His earthly life. In fact, those were the very points Satan used to tempt our Lord out in the desert, and He fell to no sin. "Make it easy on yourself, turn those rocks into break loaves." Yet, our Lord stood firm on the Word of God.
When pain comes in this life, we want nothing more than to get out of it, or have it end, or get some relief from it. It sounds obvious, but pain hurts. Relief or rescue may not come right away. Most of us, probably all of us, have suffered pain the bigger part of our lives, sometimes more and sometimes less. We must count it a privilege to suffer a bit of what our Lord suffered on the cross. Rather just have it end? Yeah, me too. But at least for the time we suffer we can call on the Lord to help us endure and to count it a privilege in Christ.
Grace to you in Christ Jesus,Bucky
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