Connecting With Jesus

Bible Universe Daily Devotional

SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST – PART #6
September 04, 2023

Average reading time is about 2 and a half minutes

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. Luke 23:34

Not one word did Jesus answer to all this. Even while the nails were being driven through his hands, and the sweat-drops of agony were thick upon his brow, He breathed a prayer of pardoning love for his murderers: ‘Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.’

O, was there ever suffering and sorrow like that endured by the dying Saviour! But it was not physical suffering, it was the sense of his alienation from God, that made his cup so bitter. It was not physical suffering that so quickly ended the life of Christ upon the cross. It was the crushing weight of the sins of the world, that broke his heart. The Father’s glory and sustaining presence had left Him; it was this that forced from his lips the anguished cry, ‘My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?’