I was up in London recently ,there were a lot of people about, I noticed a street preacher,ministering warning about their eternal destiny and telling about Christ,no one appeared to be listening. In Lamentation 1 v 12 we read,'Is it nothing to you,all you that pass by?'The context is this Judah had been invaded by the mighty Babylonian army,Jerusalem was destroyed, likewise the temple.Jeremiah survived this ,as he gazed over the carnage,and he speaks those words from 1 v12.It appeared that no one cared for the awful suffering they had experienced.But lets broaden it out ,and lets us look to the cross,and see Christ dying on the cross ,prophetically Isaiah described His awful suffering.'His appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and His form beyond human likeness' (52 V 14)That is the degree of His human suffering,I know that there was a deeper suffering,when the wrath of God was poured out on Him' The fast number of people in the world walk on the other side of the road,ignoring His suffering as if it means nothing.If one goes to the national gallery in London,there are many paintings depicting Christ on the cross.I wonder does anyone take it in His awful suffering?, and why He suffered ,Charles Wesley applies that verse to Christ in a hymn ,it reads.
'All ye that pass by, to Jesus draw nigh;
To you is it nothing that Jesus should die?
Your ransom and peace,your surety He is;
Come ,see if there ever was sorrow like
HIS'
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