GOOD FRIDAY’S SUFFERING
The famous French writer, Paul Claudel, once said that “Christ did not come to do away with suffering; He did not come to explain it; He came to fill it with His presence.” Christ came to take up human suffering, to wear human suffering as a garment, to identify with human suffering with His total Being. All human suffering is a participation in the Mystery of Good Friday. On the night of Good Friday, darkness filled the earth. The disciples, feeling lonely and abandoned, desperately questioned each other about the day’s sorry events. What has happened to the Master’s dream? What has happened to the Master’s promise? What has happened to us — and why? They were afflicted with that most devastating malady: the loneliness that strikes when one feels abandoned by God, the loneliness that cuts into the very depths of one’s being. Their loneliness was overwhelming. Sunday Sermons Treasury of Illustration, Vol. II, p. 306
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