Source: When Jesus Cries With You | Elizabeth Laing Thompson (proverbs31.org)
Do you see what this means? Jesus hurts with us. Even if He knows better days are coming, He hurts with us today — right here, right now. Wherever we are: at a desk or in the car, beside a hospital bed or a gravestone. He meets us in our present-tense pain — stands with us, weeps with us, mourns with us. Because our pain is real, and our pain is His pain. [more...]
Father, thank You for meeting us in our heartache and for hurting with us. Please help me to see and feel Your compassion even when life is painful. I trust Your love. I trust Your heart. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.