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"I am poured out like water, and all my bones are
out of joint." - Psalm 22:14
Did earth or heaven ever behold a sadder spectacle of woe! In soul and body, our
Lord felt himself to be weak as water poured upon the ground. The placing of the
cross in its socket had shaken him with great violence, had strained all the
ligaments, pained every nerve, and more or less dislocated all his bones.
Burdened with his own weight, the august sufferer felt the strain increasing
every moment of those six long hours. His sense of faintness and general
weakness were overpowering; while to his own consciousness he became nothing but
a mass of misery and swooning sickness.
When Daniel saw the great vision, he thus
describes his sensations, "There remained no strength in me, for my vigour was
turned into corruption, and I retained no strength:" how much more faint must
have been our greater Prophet when he saw the dread vision of the wrath of God,
and felt it in his own soul! To us, sensations such as our Lord endured would
have been insupportable, and kind unconsciousness would have come to our rescue;
but in his case, he was wounded, and felt the sword; he drained the cup and
tasted every drop.
"O King of Grief! (a title strange, yet true To thee of all kings only due) O
King of Wounds! how shall I grieve for thee, Who in all grief preventest me!"
As we kneel before our now ascended Saviour's throne, let us remember well the
way by which he prepared it as a throne of grace for us; let us in spirit drink
of his cup, that we may be strengthened for our hour of heaviness whenever it
may come. In his natural body every member suffered, and so must it be in the
spiritual; but as out of all his griefs and woes his body came forth uninjured
to glory and power, even so shall his mystical body come through the furnace
with not so much as the smell of fire upon it.
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