Can God Understand My Pain?

How can God understand my pain?” K.P Yohannan (Metropolitan Yohan) reminds us of a lesser-known title of Jesus’: The Man of Sorrows. He enters your suffering, shares your grief and meets you in the depths of your brokenness. In your deepest pain, Christ shares every burden. (www.gfa.org)

From: GFA World news:

The Man of Sorrows, November 2025

     How often do we think about how intimately Christ Jesus identifies with our humanity?

     How else would He be moved with compassion? He had siblings. They did not understand who their brother truly was… until His resurrection. 

     It’s obvious that Joseph died before Jesus began his ministry. This means he experienced rejection, loss, death, cold, heat, thirst… everything; any and every human experiences.

     When Messiah hung on the cross, those three hours of darkness, He was melded with all humanity; the good, the bad, the ugly. He was abandoned.

     He experienced every moment of depravity and abuse. Every injury, every war, pogrum, accident… every dark, perverse, painful experience each of us would encounter in this life…. from that moment on the cross to the final battle on this earth. I believe He even experienced everything from every generation, all the way back to Adam and Eve.

Jewish people

     Jewish people are told not to read Isaiah chapter 53. It blatantly describes Jesus Messiah. Let’s look at what it says.

Isaiah chapter 53:

Isaiah 53:2 NKJV – For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.

No Comliness

     I believe Jesus was so plain because His physical looks had nothing to do with His ministry.  Remember, Saul was handsome, head & shoulders taller than others and looked like a king. BUT he did not please God and the Lord’s Spirit left him.

Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Man Of Sorrows

     Despised, rejected, acquainted with grief… if you’re human, you’ve likely experienced all these things. As a human, can you imagine being despised and gaining no esteeme… let alone having no self-esteem?

Isaiah 53:4 Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.

Smitten

     He was carrying our griefs and sorrows, but all people could see was it looked like God had turned his back on Him. Hardly will one die for a righteous one, let alone for sinners. Thank You,  Jesus!

Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Our Punishment

     Without the terrible price Jesus paid, we would have no peace. No one would be healed. We could not be saved!

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Gone Astray

     We are the ones who wallow in our own pigpens, who despise Him. He willingly shoulders everyone’s iniquities, even the ones who have abused and spitefully used you.

Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, bet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth.

Oppressed, Silent  

     When is the last time you did not open your mouth when you were being wronged or afflicted?

Isaiah 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

Cut Off For Us    

      Yes, His people need to know that our transgressions struck Him down. Will we declare His generation has come?

Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.

Lord’s Pleasure     

     Oh, that we would follow our brother Jesus and that the pleasure of the LORD will prosper through us!

Isaiah 53:11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities

Thank You

      Thank you, Jesus, for freeing us from our iniquities. May we satisfy you for your labor for us.

Covenant

      The LORD God Almighty has never forgotten the covenant he made and will forever keep with the Israelites. Those ethnically, as well as we who are grafted in, and all who will come into the kingdom, must realize that Jesus Christ is the only way.

Hebrews 8:10-12 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.

      I long to see this day come soon!

Mercy

12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

Disciples

      I just read that people are seeing  visions of a man dressed in white, understand that it’s Jesus, but then need to be connected to believers who can lead them to salvation. We need to be disciples who disciple others.

In Conclusion

      Jewish leaders are still like the pharisees in Jesus’s day. They want to live by the traditions of their forefathers. They choose not to see, and keep others from seeing, that Messiah has come. It’s a fearsome thing to fall into the hands of the Living God!

Hallelujah, Amen!