AM 1:2{This was said of a great sorrow, which should have touched the heart of every one who passed by and saw it, the terrible troubles that came upon Jerusalem and her children. But this was also a type of the far more terrible cup of sorrow which the Lord Jesus drank for us, drank it willingly, so that we might drink of the river of His pleasures. Listen! for it is as if He said to you and me, "Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto My sorrow!" Behold and see how all His life He was a Man of Sorrows, not having where to lay His head; His own brethren refusing to believe in Him, the wicked Jews hating Him, and over and over again trying to kill Him, and He knowing all the while that awful suffering was before Him. Behold and see Him in the Garden of Gethsemane, being in an agony and saying, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.”
Behold and see Him, scourged and spit upon, led as a lamb to the slaughter, and then nailed to the cross; suffering even unto death, thirsting in the terrible pain, and yet not drinking to still it, and saying in the midst of it all, "My God, My God, why hast Thou 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 you? Can you look at it and not care about it? Can you pass by and go on just the same as if He had never loved and suffered? Oh, instead of nothing, let it be henceforth everything to you! Let it be your peace and joy, your strength and your song; let it fill your heart with love and gratitude; let it make you determined to live for Him who suffered and died for you.
For me that full and fearful cup to drink
Because Thou lovedst even to the end!
“He suffered!" Savior, was Thy love so vast
That mysteries of unknown agony,
Even unto death, its only gauge could be,
Unmeasured as the fiery depths it passed?
Lord, by the sorrows of Gethsemane
Seal Thou my quivering love forever unto Thee.