This is today's quote for "In Other Words Tuesdays"
over the weekend i read it and was thinking what this quote says or means to me......
I was agreeing in my thoughts with it.
How do i relate with others who suffer?
In my work with patients with Alzheimer and dementia for example.....?
When i see suffering around me........
When i suffer myself who do i run to?
Do i seek others who i can identify with..?
Another part of the quote says God gave an role to suffering people .....
and suffering gives credibility in an 'suffering world"!
The thought crossed my mind that:
" To relate with suffering to reach the ones who suffer....
To talk so to say the same language"
You need to identify with the suffering"
You must be aquainted with sorrow.........!!
The person who is the best aguainted with sorrow was/is
JESUS CHRIST!
Jesus Suffers With Us
In Philippians 3 Paulus said
10-11I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself. If there was any way to get in on the resurrection from the dead, I wanted to do it.
Revelation 3:20
20-21"Look at me. I stand at the door. I knock. If you hear me call and open the door, I'll come right in and sit down to supper with you. Conquerors will sit alongside me at the head table, just as I, having conquered, took the place of honor at the side of my Father. That's my gift to the conquerors!
The best person to minister to people who suffer is Jesus Christ and we as followers of Christ must be His hands and feet in this suffering world....
We bring Him ;His Message...His Love......and all that He wants to be in and through us to the suffering world.
We are linking up with Kathryn today at expectant hearts, please join us.