DAILY?READINGS: 1 Samuel 1; Isaiah 44:6-23; 2 Corinthians 4:7 to 5:10
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. Lamentations 1:12
This verse draws our thoughts to the sorrow of our blessed Lord on the cross. What anguish was His there in the darkness! Will we ever comprehend it—God turning His face away from Him? Why? “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor 5:21). —Sid Halsband
Jesus, my Saviour, died, nailed to the tree,
Cruelly crucified, stricken for me!
Darkness there shut Him in! God judged Him for my sin!
Jesus my soul to win, died there for me! —F. Allaben