In rich Abundance

By

W. Jeffrey Marsh

He partook of history’s bittterest cup without becoming bitter.

His immense suffering enriched his empathy for us.

“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace,

That we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”

He took upon him our infirmities that his bowels might be filled with mercy. “For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.”  He knows how to sympathize with us in a highly personal way.  His understanding of precisely how to help us could have come in no other way.  He completely comprehends our personal circumstances, including all the trials we individually face, every heartache, sorrow, illness and challenge.  His empathy “is not merely a matter of detached intellectual familiarity.  He helps us, hand over hand, because He understands personally that through which we pass.

No wonder we should acknowledge His hand.”

Thus, he can help heal any pain.  He came to atone for us and can heal the brokenhearted and set at liberty those who are bruised. He said, “And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs….. this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions.”

Even though we are far from perfect and feel so undeserving, we can “apply the atoning blood of Christ” to our lives and receive his merciful help and loving kindness now, today.  We can experience the blessings of the Atonement in a timely way as well as in rich Abundance, “It shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over”  Luke 6:38