GOD UNDERSTANDS OUR SUFFERING

GOD UNDERSTANDS OUR SUFFERING




ONE of life's
Greatest challenges
Is coming to terms
With human suffering


In particular
OUR VERY OWN SUFFERING


The suffering
Of of physical ailments
The suffering
Of financial woes
And the suffering
Of BROKEN relationships
Perhaps even
Within our own immediate family


SUFFERING means
To ENDURE physical or emotional loss
And pain


In the midst
Of our suffering
We wonder
IF God truly loves
And cares for us


But we know that
HE DOES
Because our Lord-OUR SAVIOR
Endured suffering
To the nth degree


“Father-into your hands-
I commend my spirit” Luke 23:46


For HE endured
The agony in the garden
The scourging at the pillar
The humiliation crowning with thorns
CARRYING THE CROSS to Calvary
And dying a humiliating death


“MY GOD-my God
WHY did you ABANDON me?” Matthew 27:26 and Mark 15:34


Jesus-OUR God and our Savior
UNDERSTANDS our suffering
All too well


Many people
TURN AWAY from God
And become filled with anger
Because of their unresolved suffering


But for me-MY personal sufferings
Has only brought me CLOSER TO GOD
Because like Peter-I feel,-


“WHERE would I run to Lord?
You possess the words
Of EVERLASTING LIFE” John 6:68


Jesus does-God does
UNDERSTAND our suffering


Even after today=GOOD FRIDAY=
I can honestly say
I DON'T understand our sufferings
Any better


But I do KNOW
God understands my sufferings
That Jesus understands
my suffering


For God did
In the person
Of his own SON-
Jesus Christ


WALK
The path first
And he asks us
To trust in
TO BELIEVE IN HIM


God understands our suffering
For he is CLOSE
To the brokenhearted


“My flesh and my heart
May FAIL
But God is the STRENGTH
Of my heart
And my portion FOREVER” Psalm 73:26


We find GOD'S PRESENCE
In the midst of our sufferings


We FIND OURSELVES
In the midst
Of our suffering


“Therefore
We do NOT lose heart
Though outwardly
We are wasting away
Yet INWARDLY
We are being RENEWED
Each day” 2 Corinthians 4:16


What is UNSEEN is eternal
GOD UNDERSTANDS our suffering


Dear Lord-
WE PRAY that
We will NOT fail you
In our final hour


But IF we do
We trust that
YOUR LOVING SACRIFICE
Will make up
For what is lacking in us


You Oh Lord-God
UNDERSTAND OUR SUFFERING


Robert P. Wallman
6-8-15


Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE
By Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti


2-5-2019