Everything for You!
“Is it nothing to you?”
Lamentations 1:12
This
was said of a great sorrow, which should have touched the hearts of everyone
who passed by and saw it, for it spoke of the terrible troubles that came upon
Behold and see how all His life He was a
Man of sorrows, not having where to lay His head...His brethren leaving Him
alone in His greatest need…the wicked Jewish leaders hating Him, and over and
over again plotting to kill Him, and He knowing all the while the death that
lay before Him. Behold and see Him in the
See Him, scourged and spat upon…led as a lamb to the slaughter, and nailed to a cruel cross…suffering excruciating pain until death freed Him…thirsting, yet not drinking to still it, and saying in the midst of it all, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me?”
Was ever any sorrow like unto the sorrow that our Lord Jesus Christ went through for love of us? Is it nothing to us? Can we look at it and not care? Can we pass by and go on through life just the same as if He had never loved, suffered and died that we might live?
Oh, instead of nothing, let it be henceforth everything to us!
Let it be our Peace and Joy, our Strength and our Song! Let it fill our hearts
with love and gratitude! Let it make us
determined to live more fully for Him who suffered and died for our Redemption.
Selected
“To all the accusations which were brought against Him, our Lord made no reply, insomuch that the governor marveled greatly. I delight in that record; and God helping me, it will be the labor of my life so to act. “You will hide him in the secret of Your presence from the strife of tongues.” Insult an angel before the throne and what would he care about it? Just such will be my feeling while I am hidden in the secret of my Redeemer’s Presence.”
Simeon of