Are you in distress? Stressed?
Jesus was a man of peace - indeed the model of being kept in 'perfect peace' (Is 26:3) - but he was also a man of sorrows (Is 53:4). I love those Scriptures that connect Christ to my own range of emotion: he wept (John 11:35), was moved with compassion (Matthew 9:36), felt pity and acted (Mark 1:41), was angry with people (Mark 3:5). He wanted things to be different (Matthew 26:38-39), and felt God had turned his back (Matthew 27:46). Can you relate? One Scripture that jumps out to me is Luke 12:50, where Jesus says that he has a baptism to undergo, and is in distress 'until' it is accomplished. Jesus carried a weight of foreboding darkness in his spirit throughout his walk in and through life. Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 4 that 'we carry around in our bodies the death of Jesus...' (vs 11) A walk with Christ will look and feel like Christ's walk: Joy and revelation ineffable (2 Cor 12:4), and trials and confusions that course through our existence until we are fully liberated. (Romans 8:23) If you are in distress, and yet are in Christ, you are very close to him in this place. (Philippians 3:10)
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