“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 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 was turned into corruption, and I retained no strength:” how much must have been our greater Prophet when He saw the…

dread vision of the wrathof God, and felt it in His own soul! To us, sensations such as our Lordendured would have been insupportable, and kind unconsciousness wouldhave come to our rescue; but in His case, He was wounded, and felt thesword; He drained the cup and tasted everydrop.

“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 rememberwell the way by which He prepared it as a throne of grace for us; let us inspirit drink of His cup, that we may be strengthened for our hour ofheaviness whenever it may come. In His natural body every membersuffered, and so must it be in the spiritual; but as out of all His griefs andwoes His body came forth uninjured to glory and power, even so shall Hismystical body come through the furnace with not so much as the smell offire upon it.

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