The Man of Sorrows

Does God really care about the grief and misery we experience in our lives?  Consider what God, through his Son, has done for you. 

Jesus, called the “Man of Sorrows” in Isaiah 53:3, was despised and rejected by the very people He came to save.  Imagine if your family and friends started to mock you, laugh at you, sing dirges about you, shun you, and even gossip about you! 

In 2003 researchers learned that the brain responds to the pain of rejection in the same way as it does with intense physical pain. Rejection is the most profound and painful experiences a person can ever go through. To have those who should have believed in us and supported us to reject us hurts deeply!  

Jesus, the “Man of Sorrows,” was persecuted, despised, rejected, tested, tempted, shamed, repeatedly beaten, and then subjected to the sorrows and humiliation of the cruelest of deaths. 

Perhaps the greatest sorrow for the “Man of Sorrows,” is when he cried out from the cross in Matthew 27:46, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Beloved, when Jesus bore our sin on the cross, even God turned his back on Him!  

Jesus never committed one act of sin yet suffered more than anyone for sin when God, according to 2 Corinthians 5:21, “…made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” 

Beloved, God cares so much about the grief and misery we experience in this life, that He went to such an extreme to save us from the potential eternal grief and misery of the next life.  The price has been paid … the invitation has been made.   Embrace Him, the Man of Sorrows, in believing faith and your grief and misery will turn to joy!  Praise The Lord! 

This is Laine Wilder for Carry the Light Ministries, bringing you Insights From an Elder.  

by Laine Wilder

author of “Insights From an Elder” for

Carry the Light Ministries