0726. SUFFERINGS AND CONSOLATION

SUFFERINGS AND CONSOLATION

"For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ" (2Co_1:5).

The sufferings of Christ were peculiar. He suffered on account of His holiness. He was so like the Father- being "the image of the invisible God"-that all who loved not the Father hated Him. He suffered also because of His faithfulness. He spoke the truth, and because the world loved not the truth He was despised and rejected of men. If we, as Christians, have consecrated ourselves to God to do His will and to manifest His truth, as Christ did, we shall understand something of the sufferings of Christ. But it is here where we are misunderstood and hated by the world, that the "consolation also aboundeth by Christ." To drink deeply of the heavenly comfort, we must enter fully into the spirit and sympathies of Christ.

Autor: James Smith