It's not your average sadness. It is deep, emotional pain. It is intense, severe sorrow, usually associated with the loss of something or someone you were bonded to in one way or another. Grief is a heaviness, and it uses all its weight to the best advantage, pressing down, trying to crush, trying to break. ...grieved by various trials...
Grief is mentioned many times in the Bible. Interestingly, it often speaks of God being grieved. God is grieved by us when we break His commandments, His covenant. When we seek to destroy the bond that He has with us, He is grieved.
Jesus is well acquainted with grief.
He bears our sorrows above and beyond His own. He sympathizes with our weaknesses. He has compassion, even while we spit in His face, mock Him, and defy Him.
Jesus, when He calls us to suffer, never asks us to endure what He has not. He is not like us in that regard. I could very willingly allow people to do hard things, while I myself sit back and let them take the brunt of the work, the brunt of the pain.
Jesus does not do that.
God is well-acquainted with various trials.
For all I suffer in my life, for all the times I am grieved, I know that God bears it, and pours out His grace on me. God Himself is the Ultimate Sufferer. This is why He is the Ultimate Saviour.
He understands. He loves. He gives.
I know about grief. Broken relationships with people you love are the worst form of grief for me - I'm a people person, as you know.
ReplyDeleteBut God is the Comforter. He knows the end from the beginning. He works all things together for good to those who love Him. He is altogether worthy of our praise, and trust. He is good.
Blessed are those who mourn.
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