Acquainted With Grief

Acquainted With Grief

As Christ approached Jerusalem in the last week of His mortal life, what must have been going through His mind? He knew what would happen after entering the city and still had  the courage and the fortitude to continue walking toward an unthinkable task. How lonely was it to know that no other could accomplish what He must do? Yet He continued, because of His love for us and His obedience to submit to the will of the Father.

Isaiah 53:3-5, 7
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed... He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth."

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