July 4

The Man of Sorrows

“A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.”
— Isa. 53:3

“He looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but found none. … He was tested and tried to the last degree of human suffering and sorrow, standing alone in this, praying in an agony and alone … none to sympathise with Him; Mary of Bethany was the only one, but for the rest never one had sympathy with Him; never one that wanted it that He had not sympathy with.”

“None of us can fathom what it was to One who had dwelt in the bosom of the Father to find His soul as a man forsaken of Him.”