If Jesus experienced the depth of your suffering, you can experience the depth of his strength.
Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada, and living with chronic pain as I do, means the world that Isaiah 53 describes Jesus as a “man of suffering and familiar with pain… Surely, he took up our pain and bore our suffering.” Other translations say that he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows. And that touches me so deeply, because if Jesus experienced the depth of my suffering, then I can experience the depth of his strength. I would have no comfort, no power to endure unless Jesus took on all my infirmities – every one of them. And as our human representative before God, Jesus had to take up our infirmities and experience our sorrow. Oh, friend, Jesus experienced the worst of suffering so that you’d have power to endure yours. So trust Jesus that his strength will see you through.
© Joni and Friends