When even people from his homeland ridiculed him, questioned him, mocked and scorned at him...
For what?
For all that He was doing for the world, they chose not to believe.
He never sinned.
I feel that I don't deserve judgment from people regarding things I didn't do wrong, things in fact done with good intention but misunderstood & misperceived as idk what.
But, neither did Jesus... Neither did He deserve any of the by-product of the brokenness of the world.
Sure, it feels - unfair, uncalled for, unnecessary...
But neither did Jesus deserve all the unkind things this world warrants.
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1 Peter 4:13 Instead, be very glad--for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.
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1 Peter 2:21-25 For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps. 2:22 He committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth. 2:23 When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly. 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
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Praise to the God of All Comfort
2 Corinthians 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
Take heart, for He has overcome the world.
