DAILY?READINGS: Numbers 30-31; Proverbs 26:13 to 27:27; Luke 3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised and we esteemed him not. Isaiah 53:3
Humanly speaking we all seek the comfort of companionship. This support was absent as the Lord Jesus Christ went to the cross. The gospel writers record that His disciples “forsook him, and fled” (Mark 14:50). Others who followed Him stood “afar off” (Matt. 27:55). Looking off to this scene, the psalmist prophesied, “I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none” (Ps. 69:20). Our Saviour, the Man of Sorrows went to the cross alone. —S. B.
Man of sorrows! What a name;
For the Son of God who came;
Ruined sinners to reclaim;
Hallelujah! What a Saviour. —Philip P. Bliss