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“Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto My sorrow…wherewith the Lord hath afflicted Me in the day of His fierce anger” (Lamentations 1:12).
All through His life in this world, the Lord Jesus was the “man of sorrows,” for He saw and cared about the heartache and all the problems that sin had brought into this world. His love went out to everyone, yet they despised and rejected Him, and did not want Him. Yes, they liked it when He healed them or fed them, but hated Him when He told them they were sinners before a holy God.
But there was another greater sorrow that the Lord Jesus endured, and this is what our verse tells us. The Lord Jesus bore the sins of every person who is saved, and the sorrow was unlike any other sorrow ever known in this world. You and I can never understand what it meant for the Lord Jesus to be “made sin” for us, and to be forsaken of God. Yet He went through all this sorrow, in obedience to God His Father, and because He loved us so much.
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