Wednesday, 2/4/15
When you are surrounded by people who don’t see your pain,
people who just do not care; and you find it impossibly lonely to go on
suffering in silence, you can take Jesus for your companion.
Day and night he had to put up with his disciples squabbling
over which of them was the greatest. Their insensitivity to his grief would later
add to the weight of his cross.
Oddly enough, it was the Old Testament from centuries before
that offered Jesus needed companionship.
The psalm says, “I
hear the whispers of the crowd that frightens me from every side as they
consult together against me, plotting to take my life.”
While Isaiah prophesied about the Messiah’s future
sufferings, Jeremiah actually lived them. Rather than calling him a prophet of
the Messiah, we call him a type of Our Lord. He experienced and gave voice to
Our Lord’s anguish. In his Lamentations Jeremiah called out,
“Give heed to my
groaning, there is no one to comfort me. I am sick at heart.”
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