Isaiah.53.2-3 For [the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He has no form or comeliness [royal, kingly pomp], that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him. (AMP)
Nobody can minister truth without understanding where the heart of God is. And nobody can stand in the place of intersession without having compassion.
Isaiah saw exactly what the savior would go through to establish the purposes of God.
Despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him.
But there was one thing Christ was sure of, that in all things He wins man back to God by offering His life as a sacrifice. The glory He had, He laid down.
Today we live in a world where men want to enter glory before paying the price to establish the purposes of God in this world.
A crown of Glory awaits all who serve faithfully and in truth.
How will you be moved by compassion to pray for the sick if you have never felt the pain of sickness or the weight of having a sick person?
The Bible says Christ was moved with compassion and healed the sick. In our theme scripture, He was a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness.
Today people view all suffering as a punishment or a misalignment to purpose. What if God wants His servants too to feel His heart? To feel the things He feels.
There is not a man of God today who has not faced something that caused Him to feel the heart of God yet perhaps in their own sight or the sight of others it seemed misaligned or like punishment.
No, not all suffering is punishment. We enter some places not to prove our faith only but to also make known the feelings of God.
A disclaimer here is that it's not a must that to become a true servants of God you must first be afflicted or that you should always be afflicted.
But if that's what it calls for to get the feelings of God into your heart, then you will. Many people talk about 1 Corinthians 2.16 saying they have the mind of Christ. But it is evident that the feelings and purposes of God are not established in them.
Ask God to help you see what you go through from His point of view. Maybe there is something He wants to cause you to feel.
Hallelujah!
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