He knows that he will change our sorrows into joy before we know it – and that from the perspective of eternity, this is very, very little. {����b5�.���wW[����Mof�W���|����_�������Y���ŝ�g/���_�V/�x���/��g�x�����!sfϲ��r�\��e�C����n7�/_|�������������۳��7�v�/e�_��F�w�PMf�TRg/�Lt�������g~Fwf㤤���λI�O�'�}���?_\�����ҟ/V����~nٛn�D����@�Ml���9+�I��A�����}�^���r��c5���g�e����B7I�3�]��}ƳKÇ��u�ғӾ�c�d&ޏ���#(���#����~>�H�+�7vR�61oB��HB.L:ak ��@������"�8Ѿ�0NcG�=�H:3 �,�0I��3���t��rI[x�Zl��'ԩə6��;��i��V���E>��ֵ�.�ca���~��������17P�g�v�衮W_�$Z�� ����x��>�?�yg��я�t���/Ʀ��(l�mQ�9�[�>�?�F�21Fkl�����Mb��)O��g���x��}���Jn�،۳���j��(�8ܫ1�����Խ�M�)��S���3?c��g��n�p���F/�����D���zMq��m8�%�ǎ��ī�/�Ip�Rh���(N@�=�c��:SMH�s�7PۭؐN�}���f�2'�V7��_��v�(���wkVW&N��k�����O'�GP�:�d����7P�������o8 ( Log Out /  Acquainted with grief: With grief He had an intimate acquaintance! Change ). He enters in and feels it with us, That is a good and kind Savior. I don’t know what to say. But the sight of the sisters in deep, agonizing grief moved him with visible compassion. We see on many occasions that His heart went out to folk, He grieved for them, … In 1982, grief abruptly intruded my life with the sudden death of my 57-year-old father-in-law. He is…a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Acknowledge the loss, say their name, acknowledge the grief and pain, and let them know you care. “a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.”–Isaiah 53:3 ESV. (I Peter 2:21 ESV), Tenth Avenue North “Hold My Heart” https://youtu.be/qEz2PsLJ-RI. Hallelujah! Father thank you for Your plan and for Your guidance in following Christ, leaving us an example, so that we might follow in His steps. Hallelujah! But as Jesus entered into the pain and sorrow of Mary and Martha’s grief, even knowing what he was about to do, he enters into ours as well. Jesus was indeed a man of many sorrows of his own. We have read of grief. I say YES to following hard after God, even though I become more and more acquainted with grief. lqƮ�����:��S���-?d��D?��4G��l���S)��.���g �D�w$S�J�J��d����|N�$س� Chuck (my husband of 33 years) and I get snippy over really stupid things and both of us are extremely bothered by bad drivers. I just know that I—we—want to hear from others. Isaiah 53 tells us that Jesus was a “man of sorrows, acquainted with grief,” and until I heard this story again about Mary, Martha, and Lazarus the other night, I had never connected the two. It is all consuming, inexorably gripping, and in its rawest moments, literally painful. This whole grief train thing makes me feel like I’ve been drafted to active duty without registering, without bootcamp, without any say in the matter. In my one-month+ experience with grief, I’ve learned how an unexpected, life-changing event that triggers grief can rock the world you thought was SO set in stone. 1 0 obj He knows that our lives are but a vapor, but he is, to our grief because he has felt his own – he. Jesus wept because he became acquainted with their grief. We endure it and live through it, but we do not become intimate with it. Commentary. Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life. ( Log Out /  <> Depression = a period of isolation and loneliness during which you process and reflect on the loss. A man of sorrows . The grieving process is not linear.