MichaelGao
Puritan Board Freshman
Lots of times when you hear or read of this or that saint who became a martyr for the faith you will get very moved. However so often we christians find it hard to truly feel the force of the words: "Christ suffered in the flesh" (1 Pet 4:1).
What is the problem? Have we grown too acquainted with the doctrine of his suffering that it is no longer fresh?
Or maybe we identify with the other "human" martyrs because they are like us in every respect. Though we understand the Christ is fully man, we still subconsciously feel that He is God so there exists a gap in our ability to truly identify with Him as a man like the rest of us in every respect made like his brothers.
What do you think? Any cures to this insensitivity to Christ's sufferings?
What is the problem? Have we grown too acquainted with the doctrine of his suffering that it is no longer fresh?
Or maybe we identify with the other "human" martyrs because they are like us in every respect. Though we understand the Christ is fully man, we still subconsciously feel that He is God so there exists a gap in our ability to truly identify with Him as a man like the rest of us in every respect made like his brothers.
What do you think? Any cures to this insensitivity to Christ's sufferings?