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 and 6-27-2021