Grieved, Repressed, Insulted

Have you ever grieved? 

Perhaps you've lost a family member or friend to an early death, or maybe a loved one turned away from the Lord and rejected you. Perhaps you've suffered financially or been faced with a difficult health problem. Or maybe you've been the victim of slander or crime.

It's easy for us to understand human grief, but we rarely think about the grief our Lord suffers.

Before the flood when the human race became so wicked, Scripture tells us that God's heart was grieved by mankind's evil (Genesis 6:6).  

We also hear Christ's sorrow in Matthew 23:37 when he says, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing."

It breaks my heart to hear of God's sorrow, and I don't want to be responsible for it. I don't want to grieve the Holy Spirit of God with whom I was sealed for the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30). 

Sometimes when I am grieving a sad situation in my life, I pause and think about my Lord. 

"He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain." Isaiah 53:3

It puts my own grief in perspective to remember how much He suffered to save me.

If you are grieving, share your heart with the Lord. He understands. 

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