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“He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied” (Isaiah 53:11).
During World War I, at the battle of Passchendaele, in France, an English soldier named Sydney Beldam was seriously wounded when a piece of shrapnel struck him in the face. Worse still, he lay for three days out on the field in the mud, until he was finally rescued and taken to the hospital. He eventually ended up at Queen’s hospital in England, where he underwent nearly forty operations to reconstruct his face and make him look normal again. But then something happened. An attractive girl named Winifred, who was an accomplished pianist, came to the hospital from time to time to play the piano and cheer up the soldiers who were recovering there. Those who saw it happen recorded that “when Sydney and Winifred came face-to-face with one another, it was love at first sight.” All the pain and suffering Sydney had gone through was forgotten in his love for Winifred.
The Lord Jesus went through all the suffering from the hand of God in the three hours of darkness on Calvary’s cross, in order to bear our sins. Yet He will be perfectly satisfied when He has you and me as His bride with Him in heaven. He will never say, “It wasn’t worth it.” If Sydney Beldam had never been wounded, he would probably never have met Winifred. The Lord Jesus could not take us as His bride if He had never gone to the cross.
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