Born with a tear in His eye!,.

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(Octavius Winslow, "Evening Thoughts")

The life of our adorable Lord was a life of 
continuous trial. From the moment He entered 
our world He became leagued with suffering. 
He identified Himself with it in its almost 
endless forms. He seemed to have been born 
with a tear in His eye, with a shadow of sadness 
on His brow. He was prophesied as "a man of 
sorrows and acquainted with grief." And, from 
the moment He touched the horizon of our earth, 
from that moment His sufferings commenced.

He did not come to indulge in a life of tranquility 
and repose. He did not come to quaff the cup of 
earthly sweets.

He came to suffer!

He came to bear the curse!

He came to drain the deep cup of wrath!

He came to weep!

He came to bleed!

He came to die!

Our Savior was a cross bearing Savior.

Our Lord was a suffering Lord.

He turned His back upon . . . 
the pleasures, 
the riches, 
the luxuries, and even 
the common comforts of this world; 
preferring a life of . . . 
obscurity, 
penury, and 
suffering.

Jesus . . . 
hungered, 
thirsted, 
labored, 
sorrowed, 
wept, 
suffered, 
bled, 
died!

He . . . 
was scourged, 
was bruised, 
was mocked, 
was smitten, 
was spit upon, 
was nailed to the tree, 
was pierced, 
was slain!

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