Having heard the suicide of the famous Korean personel and other people's stories of depression and pain, i remember how Timo expressed his anger towards GOD by saying, "JESUS is not relevant. His life and death is not relevant." And frankly, at those times, it felt so true that i even at loss for words to say the contrary. But this month the church has been preaching about His coming, His life, and His death, and with that, something in our hearts started to change.
I used to think that it is a privilege to share in CHRIST's suffering, but that made Timo to even harden himself. I forgot the truth that He came first willingly to us, in order to share in OUR suffering, too. We start to understand what compassion truly is! Compasson is not having that feeling of pity when we see others in unfortunate state. JESUS shows us by coming to this world that compassion means to "suffer with", to "share in one's suffering", to come to a person and cry with him, and to be willing to share the burden of his pain and walk through it together.
He even came especially to the rejected, needy, unworthy, hopeless, desperate, depressed, broken, outcast, hungry, sick people. He took them and embraced them. He cried with them, sit with them, died for them.
And as i write this, i pray that you, you who are in pain, who feel lonely, who feel worthless, who suffer loss, who have no friends, that you might lower your guard, bring your hardened heart, expose your disguise, and pour out your tears to Him. It took me more than a year to come to this. I thank GOD for what we've been through, i thank GOD for Timo. ❤️ May our hearts find joy and peace as we remember and ponder what christmas brings. Merry christmas !
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