Today’s Scripture: Hebrews 5:8
“He learned obedience through what he suffered.”
The suffering of Christ was not limited to the hours he hung on the cross. It actually began at his incarnation when he laid aside his divine glory and assumed a human nature subject to the same physical weaknesses and infirmities we are exposed to.
He was born into a poor family in a nation under the heel of a foreign empire. His first crib was an animal’s feed trough. During his three years of public ministry, his brothers did not believe in him and on at least one occasion mocked him (John 7:1-5). He was misunderstood, criticized, and harassed by the Jewish religious leaders. In the words of Isaiah, “he was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering” (Isaiah 53:3, NIV).
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