What Do we Say to the Sufferer?

 

What Do we Say to the Sufferer?

Many people are suffering today, and we who are not suffering are lost for words. How can a person know how another person feels in their suffering without entering that person’s body and mind? Sometimes our very presence is more of a comfort to a person than any words spoken. Most of us have experienced the death of a loved one. We have all suffered in many ways to the same degree but to each of us individually it is different. What may look to us as a horrendous amount of pain to one may be looked at as a great blessing to others who experienced the shame and suffering. For every source of pain and suffering can come an unexpected blessing. One may say to another, “I don’t know how you managed through your pain; I would have fallen apart.” Sometimes we just do not know how strong we are until we have gone through trials of pain and sorrow. Jesus Christ is the only one who can say he suffered as we suffered. He suffered rejection and ridicule. He suffered loneliness, He suffered abuse and He suffered death on the cross for us. His presence is always with us. He is our source of strength. Jesus’ words are a great comfort to us, but knowing He is with us and will never leave us is a blessing that compares to none other.

Those who have gone before us, that belong to Christ, are now seeing Him face to face and would not desire to return to us. We rejoice that our loved ones are safe in the arms of Jesus.

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