31st March, 2019
MAN OF SORROWS
David Abankwah
READ: Luke 24:46
He is despised and rejected of men; a MAN OF SORROWS, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
-Isaiah 53:3 | KJV
The first day I saw a thief lynched and burnt with a car tyre, I was very sorry for him. I was so sorrowful that, it disturbed my entire day. But this sorrow cannot to compared to what Jesus Christ, our Lord went through. Even if He was a criminal, that would not have been so humiliating. As a righteous person, He had to carry the burden of sins of the world and lay them down in Calvary. That was why the Bible terms Him as someone who was made a sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God in 2 Corinthians 5:21.
As a God, He had to limit and humble Himself into a servant. He had to become a man so that He could live with us. He had to be broken and pressed down into the Word of God so that He could be carried in the mouth of angel Gabriel. When Mary accepted the Word of God from the mouth of angel Gabriel, she conceived the Word because words are Spirit (John 6:63). As a God, Jesus had to be patient enough in the womb of Mary for nine months. How remarkable His patience was! Going through all these processes for us? Wow!
After His birth, He had to accept the milk from the breasts of Mary, he was humble enough to be taught how to walk, speak, bath, eat, and everything he had to learn as a child. His nakedness was exposed but He was not mad at it. He had to go though all these processes in order to save us, just come to think of it. When He became of age, He had to wait for His time of ministration by being in the period of drought for 30 years. When His time was up, He had to humble Himself under the ministry of John the Baptist, so that He could plant the tree of righteousness for Christians.
During His ministry, he didn’t collect any salary. He voluntarily ministered on foot, spoke without microphone and speakers, yet He was rejected by His own. He was condemned physically without any evidence of criminal activity. He was given up by His own people to be beaten, flogged, insulted, molested, humiliated, spat upon, slapped, killed and crucified. Because He was bearing the sins of the world and God could not look at sin, He was forsaken by His Father. Man of sorrows, he didn’t give up when all odds were against Him. He stood firm and saved us until His last breath.
Stay Blessed
David Abankwah 