Misery Loves Company

It has been said that misery loves company. This assertion tends to be more true than not. We don't like to suffer in silence. There is a very real need each of us has to be loved. How others respond to our pain is important in the fulfillment of this need. In the last few posts, I've focused on suffering. Why do we suffer? Where is our omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omniloving God in such times?

Long before Christ was born, it was foretold that He would be known as "...a man of sorrow, and acquainted with grief..." (Isaiah 53:3). Funny how this concept offers comfort to us when we feel afflicted. Does our Creator care that we suffer? Yes - just look to the cross. But don't linger there more than necessary - look beyond the cross to the empty tomb. Next, turn your gaze to the throne of our Lord Jesus Christ! Then you will be able to embrace your pain in the company of the Man of Sorrows, there you will no long suffer in silence, but weep with the One who is well acquainted with grief. Oh the love!