Absorbing Pain: Following Christ’s Example on the Cross
Posted on Saturday, August 6, 2011 by
You know it's never easy for me to walk into a situation that I know will be painful...to willingly move deeper into a student's life when you know that each step closer will more intimately surround you with their hurts and pains. I have now been on staff with Mason-Dixon YFC for over a year and if their has been one unexpected aspect of doing life with kids it has been the depth of the hurt that these students go through on a daily basis. As a Christian, I am far less concerned about "blazing my own trail" as I am following the path that Christ has already exemplified on the Cross. If I'm honest though, it's really easy for me to follow Christ right up until he bears that Cross. If I'm honest, it's not easy for me to bare the shame that students carry. It's not easy for me to absorb the pain that students have...to carry their burdens. BUT that is exactly what Christ has done for me and that's why it is so important that we be complete followers of Christ and a people devoted to the Cross.
He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53:3-5
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Posted by Mary Bolte on September 07, 2011, 9:54PM
Matt,
so glad to see the website…esp the blog…what a wonderful way to be able to keep up with MDYFC!! praying for all of you daily!!