Does God feel our pain?
Personal Response by Bethany
Does God feel our pain?
God really does feel and understand our pain! Jesus Christ, through the Atonement, not only suffered for our sins but also suffered our pains, sicknesses, and sorrows. He understands perfectly everything we experience here on earth. Through his love and compassion, He will and does help us with our problems and challenges we face.
When I was sixteen years old I was in an automobile accident that would have been fatal, if not for the saving graces of a truly loving Heavenly Father. I suffered many external and internal injuries that left me in and out of the hospital for quite some time. During my quiet moments when I was alone, I thought “Why me?” I didn’t understand why this horrible thing had happened and I felt sad and depressed. No one I knew could relate, and I felt very alone. However, it was also in those quiet moments at a later time as I was reading the scriptures that I knew there was one person who did know what I was going through, because He had suffered all. It was then that I knew I needed to stop feeling sorry for myself. What happened did happen, and there was nothing I could do to take it back. I then knew there were things that my Heavenly Father wanted me to learn from the whole experience. He wanted to help me grow and progress, and the only way I could have was by first changing my attitude.
Jesus Christ did not just atone for the sins of the world, but for all suffering whatever it may be. In Mosiah 3:7 it states, ” And lo, he shall suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people.” I realized that God did feel my pain, the physical, emotional, spiritual and mental, and He was the one and only person who completely understood how I was feeling.
In Alma 7:11-12 it reads, “And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people. And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.” How else would God be able to show us mercy and truly know and comprehend our suffering? Heavenly Father loves us for we are His children, and what better way to show His love for us than to sacrifice His only begotten Son so He can identify, sympathize, and be able to sustain us in our times of need.
I know that Jesus Christ does succor His people. He not only aids us but He provides support and comfort to all of those that stand in need of it. His atonement is our greatest hope. He did atone for the sins, the pains, the sorrows and the afflictions of everyone on a very individual and personal level. Through His great sacrifice, He is able to help and relate to each one of us.
Tags: atonement, Christ, Pain, suffer
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