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“Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto My sorrow, which is done unto Me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted Me in the day of His fierce anger” (Lamentations 1:12).
These words were written by the prophet Jeremiah hundreds of years before the Lord Jesus came into this world as a Man. Yet they describe the Lord Jesus, as He suffered under the judgment of God for sin. The Lord Jesus came willingly into this world, knowing full well that He was going to suffer for sin, and that this was the will of God His Father. But just the same, He felt very keenly the fact that men paid little or no attention to His sufferings. Not only did they reject Him and crucify Him, but they made light of what He suffered from the hand of God.
The Lord Jesus suffered much from the hands of man, but His sufferings from the hand of God were much greater. So great were those sufferings that God the Father caused the sun to be darkened, so that no one could see what took place during those sufferings. The Lord Jesus has never forgotten those sufferings, and He could say (prophetically), “My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in Me” (Lamentations 3:20). He does not want us to forget either, and that is why He has asked us to remember Him each Lord’s Day.
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