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God Suffers with Us in Our Pain ㅡ

 “And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.”

 (Judges 10:16)

The cross is a revelation to our dull senses of the pain that, from its very inception, sin has brought to the heart of God.

Every departure from the right, every deed of cruelty, every failure of humanity to reach His ideal, brings grief to Him.

When there came upon Israel the calamities that were the sure result of separation from God,—subjugation by their enemies, cruelty, and death,—it is said that “His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.” “In all their affliction He was afflicted: ...and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old.” (Judges 10:16; Isaiah 63:9).

His Spirit “maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” As the “whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together” (Romans 8:26, 22), the heart of the infinite Father is pained in sympathy.

Our world is a vast lazar house, a scene of misery that we dare not allow even our thoughts to dwell upon.

Did we realize it as it is, the burden would be too terrible.

Yet God feels it all.

In order to destroy sin and its results He gave His best Beloved, and He has put it in our power, through co-operation with Him, to bring this scene of misery to an end.

“This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” (Matthew 24:14).

 (Education 263)

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