Spiritual Strength For Each Day
“For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted” (Hebrews 2:18).
Are you inwardly discouraged? Only Jesus can help you, for He, the King of all kings, the highest Majesty, became inwardly one with your discouragement. He identified Himself with your fear.
Are you lonely? Only Jesus can help you, because He became one with your loneliness. He was forsaken by His best friends.
Do your find your afflictions too hard to bear? Only Jesus can help you, because He became one with your afflictions. He knows the subtle temptations that afflict you, and He has pity on you, not as an outsider, but as one who suffered more and deeper than you, yet who overcame.
Only Jesus can help you, because He became inwardly one with your shame. There are shameful things in your life, which you would hate to be discovered. But Jesus went to the uttermost and became one with your shame, “…despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2).
