Questions & Answers

In the Category: The God Who Draws Near

#NEAR21 How does God draw near to the suffering? God draws near through His Son, Jesus Christ, who entered our world of sorrow to redeem and comfort His people.
#NEAR22 Did Jesus experience suffering? Yes. Jesus suffered in body and soul, bearing grief, rejection, and pain, and was even deeply troubled by it, that He might become our merciful High Priest.
#NEAR23 Why did the Son of God suffer? He suffered to take the punishment of our sin, to destroy death, and to bring us to God.
#NEAR24 Does Jesus understand my pain? Yes. He is able to sympathize with every weakness, for He has been tested in every way yet without sin.
#NEAR25 How does Christ's suffering help us? His suffering shows the depth of His love, secures our redemption, and teaches us to trust our Father in trials.
#NEAR26 Where is Christ when I suffer? Christ is present by His Spirit, interceding for you and sustaining you with grace that cannot fail.
#NEAR27 What does the Holy Spirit do for the suffering believer? He comforts the heart, strengthens faith, and assures us we are God's children even in affliction.
#NEAR28 What comfort does the gospel bring to the sufferer? That the One who bore our griefs now reigns over them, and nothing can separate us from His love.
#NEAR29 What example did Christ leave for us in suffering? He entrusted Himself to the One who judges justly, overcame evil with steadfast obedience, and set the pattern for us to follow in obedience to God, by not returning evil for evil, but doing good.
#NEAR30 What promise assures us of God's nearness? "I will never leave you nor forsake you," says the Lord, whose presence is our peace.