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“I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light” (Lamentations 3:1-2).
When the prophet Jeremiah wrote these words, he was really referring to himself, and all the difficulties he had passed through while speaking to the children of Israel about their sinful ways. But sometimes in the Old Testament the Spirit of God gave the prophets language that went far beyond their own experiences, and really referred to Christ Himself. That is certainly the case in this chapter.
The Lord Jesus felt very much the pain of being crucified, for it was a most brutal death. However, he felt far more the sufferings at the hands of God, for the Lord Jesus was “the Man” that saw affliction “by the rod of His [God’s] wrath.” It was God the Father Himself who dealt with the whole question of sin in those three hours of darkness, when our Lord Jesus was on the cross. We can never understand what it was for Him to be “made sin” for us, but we can thank and praise Him for all that He endured to put away our sins.
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