He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
Isaiah 53:3
Jesus understands your pain, no matter what is causing it. There is no sadness, hurt, or loss he does not know personally. He can relate to all of it because he is the Man of Sorrows. This is comforting news to the hurting heart, and I don’t want you to miss it.
Throughout his earthly life, Jesus experienced grief, pain, and loss. He wept at his friend’s grave. He was misunderstood and falsely accused. He was betrayed by a so-called friend. Maybe you know what that’s like. He was spat upon by men and women whom he had created. Yet none of this matches the indescribable pain he endured while hanging upon the cross—in our place—becoming the only, fully acceptable sin offering we needed and God’s justice required.
Isaiah predicted the sufferings of the Messiah—the Suffering Servant—with startling accuracy. He rightly predicted our Savior would be deeply acquainted with grief. Some people who seemed to love Jesus later “despised and rejected” him, and John 1:10 tells us, “He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.”
But there was
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