JESUS UNDERSTANDS

"Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,"

Matthew 26:67
King James Version

Jesus knows how it feels to be beaten, humiliated and abused. He also knows how it feels to be rejected. For many people, He has been knocking at the door of their heart and they have refused to let Him come in to their heart. How it must hurt our precious Saviour to be rejected.

"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20). It breaks my heart to know that He is still being rejected.

Daniel W. Whittle wrote a hymn that should make all of us search our heart "Have You Any Room For Jesus?"

"Have you any room for Jesus, He who bore your load of sin? As He knocks and asks admission, Sinners, will you let Him in?

Room for pleasure, room for business, But for Christ the Crucified, Not a place that He can enter, In the heart for which He died?"

Let's stop hurting Jesus and make room for Him in our heart and in everything we do. If ever someone deserves to be happy, it is Jesus. O how I love Jesus. He is the Joy of my heart, the reason I'm living and why I get out of bed when I am in so much pain from my arthritis.

Joanne Lowe
March 10, 2021