On this Good Friday take time to think about Jesus' suffering. The tears he cried in the garden before He was taken away to be arrested, accused, beaten, mocked, nailed to a cross and the time He was separated from God, feeling the weight of the punishment of our sin.
I was also thinking about God our Father and how He had to watch His beloved Son go through this suffering.
Now think about how we deal with the sufferings we experience.
Hebrews 12:1-4
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin.
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