October 15

From: Daily Sacrifice By: Henry Allan Ironside

Hebrews 4:15

“We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities” — Hebrews 4:15¹⁵For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15).

THERE has never appeared on earth another who so thoroughly entered into all human distresses and understood all the perplexities that trouble the minds of men, as the Lord Jesus Christ. None else could fathom the depths of human hearts as He, who was God and Man in one blessed, adorable Person. He did not need to study men. He knew them intuitively. He knew their thoughts and anticipated all their problems. And so today He remains the one unchanging Christ, who can minister to men in every circumstance. He binds up broken hearts, heals sin-sick souls, and meets every demand of the most exacting searcher after ultimate truth. He is Himself “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6⁶Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)). Men speak sometimes of “the problem of Jesus.” He is not a problem. He is the solution to every problem.

“What can it mean? Is it aught to Him

That the days are long, and the nights are dim?

Can He be touched by the griefs I bear,

Which sadden the heart and whiten the hair?

About His throne are eternal calms,

And strong glad music of happy psalms,

And bliss unruffled by any strife—

How can HE care for my little life?

And yet, I want Him to care for me,

While I live in this world where sorrows be.

When the lights die down from the path I take:

When strength is feeble and friends forsake;