A Man of Sorrows

January 16, 2014 - A Man of Sorrows – Manna by Dorothy Callies

Isaiah 53:3 “He was despised and rejected—a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on Him and looked the other way when He went by. He was despised, and we did not care” (NLT). “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” (KJV).

Psalm 22:6 gave a prophecy of Christ’s suffering. David, the Psalmist wrote how he felt back then. Psalm 22:6 “But I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned and despised by all! Everyone who sees me mocks me. They sneer and shake their heads, saying, ‘Is this the one who relies on the Lord? Then let the Lord save Him! If the Lord loves Him so much, let the Lord rescue Him!’” (NLT)

Another prophecy of Christ is found in Psalm 31:11 “I am scorned by all my enemies and despised by my neighbors—even my friends are afraid to come near me. When they see me on the street, they turn the other way” (NLT).

Jesus gave a prophecy to the disciples in Luke 18:31-34 NLT: Gathering the twelve disciples around Him, Jesus told them, “As you know, we are going to Jerusalem. And when we get there, all the predictions of the ancient prophets concerning the Son of Man will come true. He will be handed over to the Romans to be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit upon. They will whip Him and kill Him, but on the third day He will rise again.” But they did not understand a thing He said. Its significance was hidden from them, and they failed to grasp what He was talking about.

John 1:10-11 NLT “But although the world was made through Him, the world didn’t recognize Him when he came. Even in His own land and among His own people, He was not accepted.” Jesus emphasized that “all the predictions of the ancient prophets concerning the Son of Man will come true.”  The ancient prophets would be Moses, Isaiah, Daniel, Jeremiah, Micah, and more who wrote and prophesied about Him. 

Jesus was a man of sorrows. Jesus had experienced great pain, suffering, disappointment, and grief. It is because of the sins of human kind. If you experience a measure of suffering and disappointment, know this, Jesus went through it. He tasted it for you. When you know and understand Jesus’ sorrows, you will sense the deep deliverance and a relief inside of you with great peace because you have the fellowship of His suffering (Phil.3:10). I felt that flows of deliverance, relief and a peace inside of me when I came to read about His suffering. I pray that you would sense this in your spirit.

Song: He Has Surely Borne Our Sorrow

Once on a cross there hung in sorrow

One who was willing to die for our sins;

God’s only Son, sent down from heaven,

Came to redeem all men.

Chorus: He has surely borne our sorrow;

He has taken the sin-debt away.

He was bruised for our transgressions,

And by His stripes we are healed today.

(Mosie Lister, Sing His Praise)