"Looking unto Jesus...who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him..."
It is true Jesus never lost sight of the Cross, but just as true is the fact that from our text, He endured it, He didn't endear it. It is dear to us but was distasteful to Him. It was a cup, humanly speaking, He asked the Father to remove from Him. But, thank God, the great word, "nevertheless," was always a part of His prayer vocabulary.
The Cross was something in God's Will for Him on earth as He journeyed Home. It was one of the unpleasantries of life we all, in a lesser form or fashion, must face as we travel life's pathway on the way to our everlasting abode. The Cross was not His final destination, nor is it ours, but the Father's House!
If we 'consider' Him when faced with our own miniature Gethsemane and Calvary, we'll look past the gruesomeness before us to the glory that awaits us. Remember always those most encouraging words of one who was very much acquainted with suffering, "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are
eternal."
eternal."
Paul pitted twenty years of suffering against eternal bliss and came to the conclusion the former was, "but for a moment."
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