He called grief, “friend”

Isaiah 53:3-4

“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.”

The word “acquainted” means, to know, to understand, to have full knowledge, to be a kinsman, to be a friend.

He’s so aquatinted with grief, he can call it “friend.”

He is not unfamiliar with the ache in your soul.

The tears that you cry, the groan of your spirit, those things are not foreign to him.

He knew how heavy it would all be. And he wanted to know you so deeply, that he called grief “friend.”

No one would seek out grief, and acquaint themselves with it of their own free will.

Except Jesus.

He sought yours out, to carry it.

A Jesus who never wept, could’ve never wiped my tears away.

He bore your griefs, so you wouldn’t have to. He carried you sorrows, so you wouldn’t have to.

He called grief “friend,” so you could call him “friend.”

I know your heart is weary tonight, but he carried all this already. He carried it alone.

So that you would never have to face this day alone.