CHRIST ALONE
OCTOBER 2
THE SYMPATHY OF JESUS.
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. Hebrews 4:15
personally know what his people have to endure and pass
through.
He wished to know all about us,
to be as nearly like us as he could.
He now knows not only what we feel,
but how we
feel.
No angel in Heaven knows this; no angel can, f
or an angel never suffered.
The tenderness of Jesus , therefore,
is far beyond the tenderness of an angel;
yes, of all the angels in Heaven.
Jesus knows what bodily pains are; and
he knows
what mental agitation, dejection, and agony mean.
His nerves were shaken.
His
soul was troubled.
His body suffered from hunger, thirst, cold, weariness, and
wounds.
He suffered in every part, and from every possible cause.
He knows,
therefore, the strength necessary to bear, and
the comfort needful to sustain.
He feels for us. More, he feels with us.
He is our Head, and we are his
members.
The sympathy of the head with the members is quick,
constant, tender,
perfect.
Such is the sympathy of Jesus.
Suffering one, Christ alone can suitably sympathize with you;
because he alone can so sympathize as to sustain and
sanctify your
sufferings; and certainly and honorably deliver you.
Jesus always has his eye upon you;
nor does he look on unaffected,
for his eye affects his heart.
He
is touched, tenderly affected,
with the feeling of your infirmities.
He will
not lay on you more than you can bear,
nor will he allow anyone else to do so.
His mercy is exquisitely tender, and his compassions fail not.
Look to Jesus
under all your sorrows, sufferings, and pains;
and draw comfort from this, Jesus feels for me, Jesus feels with me.
But when he saw the multitudes,
he was moved with
compassion on them,
because they fainted, and were scattered abroad,
as sheep
having no shepherd. Matthew 9:36
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