KRISTINA
Good Morning! I am Kristina Crabtree, Minister of Spiritual Formation at Central United Methodist Church.
If I say that this morning I will be talking about suffering, what will be your reaction? Will you turn off the tv? Do you get sad when you hear the word suffering? Maybe it’s because you have been through a struggle or going through a struggle right now.
Sometimes, I think we can get the wrong perception of suffering as if it is something we deserve or something that we don’t deserve. Now let me ask you this, why do you think Jesus died on the cross? Most people would say to save us from our sins.
Will that be true? When we read Isaiah 53, we see another aspect to the death of Jesus. Verse 3 talks about Jesus being a man of sorrow; a person who was acquainted with grief. In verse 4 it describes Jesus’ death as him taking on our griefs and carrying our sorrows. If you are suffering today, know that Jesus not only died on the cross for our sins but that while he was on the cross he took our very griefs and sorrows.
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