Sooo basically what i'm doing is listening to the 90 mins video of Brother Andrew in the church of Anaheim, California, preaching about 'Message 10 of Crystallization of the Book of Zechariah'. It's a deep, meaningful message anyway, and suddenly i'm moved to share some enjoyment that I got from his sharing.
The Book of Zechariah consists of 2 parts, where the 1st part ( chapter 1-6 ) talks about vision, not an ordinary vision, but a vision of consolation. Then the second part ( chapter 9-14 ) that talks about prophecy, prophecy of encouragement.
The vision mentioned from chapter 1-6, is commonly for the children of Israel. However, the prophecy mentioned in chapter 9-14 is about encouragement. Without Christ, there will be no consolation, no encouragement. However, Christ is not only consolation and encouragement with the Jewish people in their suffering, but He's their suffering companion.
Well, we might be a joyous, sincere people in our outer-side, but don't we have suffering?
When you have suffering, what do you need?
Truthfully, all human would say 'I need a companion. I need somebody to sympathize with me. I need somebody to just sit with me' ( uhm maybe this phrase inspired Simple Plan later on in their lyrics in the song, When I'm Gone : .... Misery loves company.... )
You know, Jobs and his 3 friends were good, until they started opening up their mouth. If they just sat there, sympathized with him, that would be wonderful.
Anyway, in our suffering, what do we need the most? We need somebody to sympathize with us. Guess what? Who's the biggest sympathizer? CHRIST.
So, you guys got any sufferings? Just remember you have this real good sympathizer with the sympathize in you.
In Hebrew 4:12 said that 'For we don't have our high priest suit we cannot be touched by the feeling of our weakness. Feeling of our weakness, that's pretty common. However don't worry, in chapter 4:5, Christ gives his compassion to us, the ignorant ones. We have Christ who sympathizes with us, who consoles us and encourages us.
That's what Brother Andrew from the video said and it made me feel touched.
Well, it's true that when we have suffering, we tend to seek sympathy, either from friends, family. Somehow, when we have received their sympathy, we are assured and affirmed that we are okay, we are better than before. However in our deepest place in our heart, there's still a missing piece i don't know what and why, there's still a hole left opened up. Even though we have received enough sympathy, we still ask for more. Well, human nature. So there isn't a complete peace enveloping us.
If you ever feel like that, why don't you try contacting God? Why don't you try calling upon the name of the Lord, opening the veils in your heart, exercise your spirit so that it could touch the Lord so that you can receive His compassion, His grace? When you're down and you let all of your beings being exposed to God, when you surrender completely to Him and let His hands take control of everything? Definitely, you will feel relieved, your burden has been taken away even though there's still some left. You know and feel Him consoles you, encourages you, and walks with you going through the life.
I mean, well, I have experienced this pace of life before. I didn't know what to do, so i just kneeled down, said everything that'd been bugging me, and somehow i knew the Lord understood, He was well i didn't know how to describe it. It was too wonderful to have Lord like that.
So, praise the Lord for his consolation and his encouragement :'')
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