Identifying With Christ

Christ understands.

If you ever need to remember a truth this is it:
Christ understands.

Betrayed or wounded by a friend? He gets it. Felt forsaken? Yup, He's been there. Made to look foolish? Mocked by an enemy? Lied to? Rejected? Felt beat up? Deeply grieved? Overwhelmed by anguish & tears? Surrounded by excruciating pain? 

Oh, reader, He knows.
Christ understands.

But the opposite it true too.
You identify with Christ when you suffer.

What do you think hurt the most? 
The stripes on Christ's back or when the disciples all left Him? 

What pierced Jesus the most? 
The nails or His powerful love being rejected? 

What weighed heaviest upon His brow? 
The crown of thorns or the unbelief of those around Him?  

What was loudest, 
the silence of His Father or the accusations from the enemy?

When hurt, sorrow, rejection, or persecution come to you, remember Christ understands & you are learning to identify with Him.

2 Timothy 2:11-13

It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

Philippians 3:10

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;