Pain has the inexorable power to make even its observers recoil in what is almost a mirror image of that pain.
It’s not rare for one who has seen another’s pain to experience nausea and even get physically sick.
Perhaps this phenomenon of pain-begotten-by-pain caused the Irian Jayan Dek tribe to explain to us, “The devil is attracted to pain.”
But--and this is wonderful--it is true that Jesus meets us at the point of our needs. He’s there where the pain is.
And what a wonderful reversal of this phenomenon happens when we look upon His pain on the Cross. The lashes, the contusions, the thorn gouges, and the nails all release a pain-canceling artesian Blood-flow of healing and redemption.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment