His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.
We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body.
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
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