Thoughts for another day

July 11, 2013.

Today's verse: Heb. 4:15. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

In living life you would have realised how frail and fickle our bodies are.  Sometimes you feel so bad that you hold your head in your hands and plead the Lord to heal you; for the pain is unbearable and it hurts when you sit or when you stand or move even a step.  The pain is so deep within that really you just wish to move into oblivion and you question God: Why don’t You take me to You or heal me?   And then you look up and there is just silence and darkness.

Perhaps, in extended prayer and thinking you’ll tell Him, ‘Lord maybe you don’t understand how desperately I’m in pain for my body hurts and my mind cannot be filled with anything because this pain so occupies it.  Lord maybe you don’t know pain and that is why you allow this disease to pummel me’ isn’t it?  But, think my friend of Jesus, the Son of man, who by virtue of His being born on earth was fully Man.  He had all the emotional and physical attributes of a human being in the flesh and He also would have desired this or that and have liked this or that isn’t it?  And therefore He would have also have felt pain and fatigue and tiredness or even freshness of the body, just like you and me.

But did Jesus complain?  He didn’t…we have evidence of this at the suffering He faced at the end of His mission here on earth, but He opened not His mouth to utter a single syllable of pain on His body…only the pain in His Spirit, when He senses the absence of His Father; Who chose to be absent because He had dumped our sins on Him the sinless One; and so was anathema to the Father.   But, Jesus never complained and never sinned.  Today, He reigns at the right hand of God in glory and He is our High Priest.  We are grateful and privileged; and also blessed to have Him as our High Priest to minister before our God and His Father.   We can rest assured He is interceding for us, having felt the pain we feel, and raising us up before Him, who has the power to redeem us from all our trials and tribulations.