Jesus would have been close to His Heavenly

At age 12, He became noticed by temple scholars as an extremely knowledgeable young man in His Faith. His parents, however, did not always understand His behavior. Not knowing He went to the temple, they were overcome with worry at where He was. Jesus' simple reply to His parents after they found Him was "wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?"

It is at the beginning of His ministry when He was about 30 years of age that Scripture would begin to lay out a plan for His life. After His baptism, He endured 40 days of fasting only to suffer the enemy's agonizing threats of temptation. Throughout the remaining years of His ministry, He lived by traveling from town to town teaching and healing and always thinking of others. Many who were poor outcasts of society may have had a place to live. But He who had no place of His own used the ground for a bed at night.

In His ministry, His manly character came in to play. Because pleasing His heavenly Father was His first and ultimate goal, He was always thoughtful of others. Materialism meant little to Him. He owned very little and financially was at the level of poverty. His interest was not in money and he did not concern Himself for what others thought of Him because of it.. He always did what was right when dealing with others and knew how to show extreme compassion for those deserving.

But though He held a gentile, humble, and generous nature, He was ridiculed. He was called possessed and crazy and was understood by no one.

On the night before His crucifixion, at the garden He poured tears of sorrow for what He was about to endure and there was no one to comfort Him. His closest friends were too absorbed in their drowsy state of affairs to take notice of His agony. They did not understand what Jesus was going to go through although He oft at times tried to tell them. Not even they who were closest to Him could understand His inner pain.

No doubt they had hoped His trip to Jerusalem would anoint Him as king. Indeed as king He was anointed but not as expected in their heart of intentions. The Servant King could do no other than to offer Himself as a servant to those He dearly loved.

On the day of His crucifixion, He was hit, spit upon, mocked, slandered, and ridiculed. His was given a crown of bitter thorns and Roman flogging as a thank offering for His kind deeds . While on the way to His crucifixion, He was made to carry his own hanging post until He could hold it no further. Was it pain or the exhaustion that then brought Him to His knees? Still, He could only think of others.

When crucified, He was ridiculed, and while ridiculed tortured with the driven nails through His body. And on the post, he was left to die. After hours torture, He felt excessive thirst, (possibly dehydration from severe abuse and loss of blood). 

He gave up the ghost and a Roman soldier pierced His side. Did He not suffer enough while still alive? Yet when blood and water flowed from His body, He gave man from whom came His deepest suffering His deepest forgiveness. As a Sacrificial Lamb servant, He poured His pure love from His heart and the atonement of man followed.

After giving up the ghost, His suffering was not over. He spent 3 days and nights in the pits of hell. Only in His resurrection,His suffering had ended, or so it seemed to man. But did it?

He continues to suffer with man the sins of man who harm those He calls His own, and He will do so until His return. Christ the head of the church bride feels what the body endures.

His suffering as a Man began at birth and it was in the garden when Jesus would begin to suffer most for man. And as man's Creator, He suffered in the garden since man's fall. The Creator knew what the sin of mankind would ultimately mean for Him. He understood the repercussion of sin and what He would have to endure later as Man because of it. Through the ages, He has endured with man for it.

When the Servant returns, He will continue to serve others. He will still be thinking of others because that is how great is His love. It is only after the suffering of man through final judgment that there will be endless bliss for both Christ and the Church.

What Jesus went through as Son of Man brought Him deep suffering. Yet, it was His final day on earth He suffered most. His closest companions deserted Him while others mocked and ridiculed His beaten and crucified body. Yet, Jesus willingly endured through this suffering. He had become Servant and that lead Him to the cross for man. By giving Himself for others, He learned perfect obedience to His Father and became the perfected High Priest God.

As a Man, He was made as a man and in every way capable of suffering as a Man. In return, He became man's atonement, glorified at the cross. And though man does not realize it, man has suffered with Him. But while man suffers with Him, man is also glorified with Him. It is a sacrificial relationship between Christ and the church.

The suffering that brought the unification of Christ and the church and the death of our God (the worst of evil) brought and bought resurrection and the best of good from God for man. It gave the sacrifice of life and with it the power of being able to give everlasting life. The Suffering Servant is indeed the Beautiful Servant, for His love is beyond measure.

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All information on this page can be found in the gospels and letters.