All Human Suffering is Trifling in light of the Cross of Jesus Christ

The Cross is the center and most profound act of love for God's chosen people by God's Spirit and His Word.  All human suffering is trifling compared to the peace of eternal bliss and the love of the Cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Do you realize this in a spiritual understanding?

There may be great moments of human suffering in your life.  There is no suffering, however, like the Cross of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ!  At the Cross, He bore the very pains and agonies of hell in our place.  He simply did not redeem every soul but only and all those who trust in His Cross alone.   We ought to trust in the Cross of Jesus Christ alone.  It is greater suffering than all of human history combined, and it is infinitely and far exceedingly powerful than the greatest and ultimate human sin.

Do you realize at the Cross Jesus Christ He bore our hell upon Himself?  He alone redemptively suffered in our behalf and took upon Himself the curse of sin!  He simply did not redeem us so we can go to hell in the final analysis of our lives, but He saved us through the sole propitiation of His bloody atonement.  He alone expiated our sins as far as the east is from the west!  There is no Savior or Redeemer like our Jesus.

In the end, nothing is in comparison with the eternal joys of heaven that the Cross secures.  We are given the eternal benefits of the redemptive Cross of the God-man through the spiritual application of the Holy Spirit and the written Scriptures.  All of our toil will be repaid when we see the Risen Redeemer!  We will be instantaneously glorified and perfect and sinless.  Right now all believers in Christ have a clean or sinless soul but their body continues to have the remaining corruption of sin.  I suggest to you that one of the closest "sufferings" of someone to Jesus at holy Cross was His mother.  However, I would like to rightly point out that the "sufferings" of the Virgin Mary are a trifling thing in light of the agony of our Lord Jesus!  That is, there is no suffering touching this life that compares with the efficaciously redemptive suffering of Jesus Christ.  His mother did not suffer hell in our place.  We know she did suffer but it was not for sin or to make atonement.  I suggest to you that only the self-existent God-man could make atonement for sin that would spiritually aid the sons and daughters of Adam to spiritual victory over death, darkness, hell and Satan!

We study in history the captivity and bondage and suffering of the people of Israel in Egypt.  We also study much later on the Holocaust of the Jewish people.  We also hear of people who have suffered greatly in their individual lives.  I would like to suggest to you in respectful terms that none of these as a whole is worthy of comparison to the Cross of the Lamb of God.  He took upon Himself the hell of an innumerable multitude.  That is, every sin we have ever committed He paid for it in our place.  There is no suffering that remits sin but that which is from the Cross!  I suggest to you that Jesus on His Cross found His resting place for His head that found none in this life among the companionship of men.  That is, He lived in poverty and at His Cross he bore the total pain of our sin.  There is no sin greater than the Cross!  I also suggest to you that in light of the wisdom of Scripture there is no suffering like the Cross.  It should be an encouragement to us if we suffer because the Father permitted His Son to suffer eternally.  May we understand by His Spirit that all human suffering is trifling in light of His Cross.  This should give us hope that never fades away.  Amen.