7526	Forums / Main Forum / Heavy Weight	on: April 26, 2007, 04:07:14 PM
Jesus was speaking about taking the burden from us because His grace is greater than our sin , the consequences we suffer as a result of sin, and the being judged by others who are self righteous. Jesus is the only one who understands our weakness, since He can read our thoughts and He can understand all of the intents of our hearts. He suffered the reproach of men, being spat upon, jeered at. He was kicked and punched by men in the last hours of His life, being tormented by demons, and tempted to pre mature death. He suffered the absolute worse situation by being made sin so the the Father turned away as a result of His being made sin for us. He was forsaken by the Father as darkness enveloped the earth.  It was an unimaginable pain.In His death He received the full punishment for our sins. He was beaten and whipped so bad  that He was unrecognizable. He was truly a man acquainted with sorrow and grief. He identifies with our suffering because He suffered the pangs of death knowing the time He was to die while He was in His ministry. He know the hour and was fully aware of what He was to suffer. Being aware of the kind of death we are to die would put to much grief on any of us mortals. We would always be staring death in the face from our births. It would be painful. Yet Jesus came to die that kind of death for us being acquainted with the sorrow all through His life. Our preparation for death is short and then we are in heaven. Since He was a man of sorrow, He can take all of our sorrows because He can make us know that He understands by experience. When we go to Him in prayer, He meets us at our deepest need by reminding us of  that He under-girds our lowest experience because He is lower. His hand meets us by holding onto us, or by holding us up, or by keeping us in HIs grip. His steps are always going before us , keeping our enemies from destroying us in our day of evil, or our day of the lowest point emotionally and spiritually. His angels at His command ,are fighting for us when the forces of evil come at us at our lowest point, and trying to smother out the last bit of light we have to trust in. He grace is there when we have no strength to give us our needs by a pure and free grant so that we are not made to cope with too much of the burden of our trial. His words are true when every man tries to get us to trust in something else, or someone else for our relief, He speaks to us from His suffering cross, telling us that He alone will deliver us. As we hear the voices of men saying \"He trust in God , let God deliver Him.\" At the most helplessness we feel the name of Jesus rings as our only hope and our last defense, at the lowest part of our trial.  Very few men see that kind of grace.