Christ has promised,'lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.'-Matthew 28:20
Through God-The Holy Spirit, we are NOT left alone, without care and comfort.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you-John 14:16,17
The Holy Spirit is Christ's representative, but divested of the personality of humanity, and independent thereof. Cumbered with humanity, Christ could not be in every place personally. Therefore it was for their interest that He should go to the Father, and send the Spirit to be His successor on earth. No one could then have any advantage because of his location or his personal contact with Christ. By the Spirit the Saviour would be accessible to all. In this sense He would be nearer to them than if He had not ascended on high.-DA,p.669
At all times and in all places, in all sorrows and in all afflictions, when the outlook seems dark and the future perplexing, and we feel helpless and alone, the Comforter will be sent in answer to the prayer of
faith. Circumstances may separate us from every earthly friend; but no circumstance, no distance, can separate us from the heavenly Comforter. Wherever we are, wherever we may go, He is always at our right hand to support, sustain, uphold, and cheer.-DA,pp.669,670
Furthermone, we receive assurance of not only the Holy Spirit's presence but Christ's love for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.-Romans 8:35-39
Choice alone can separate us from Christ.
"Unless His followers choose to leave Him, He will hold them fast."-DA,p.483
"When Christ took human nature upon Him, He bound humanity to Himself by a tie of love that can never be broken by any power save the choice of man himself." -SC,p.72
Christ is touched by every struggle we face and He can truly identify with us for He himself 'hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted'(Hebrews 2:18). More comforting is this thought: 'For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in ALL points tempted as we are; yet without sin'(Hebrews 4:15).
He knows rejection
He knows how it feels to be reviled
He knows what it feels to be misunderstood-family,friends etc
He knows what if it feels like to be falsely accused
He knows every circumstance and more
Of Christ's home experience we are told:
So pained was Christ by the misapprehension in His own home that it was a relief to Him to go where it did not exist. There was one home that He loved to visit,--the home of Lazarus, and Mary, and Martha; for in the atmosphere of faith and love His spirit had rest. Yet there were none on earth who could comprehend His divine mission, or know the burden which He bore in behalf of humanity. Often He could find relief only in being alone, and communing with His heavenly Father.
Those who are called to suffer for Christ's sake, who have to endure misapprehension and distrust, even in their own home, may find comfort in the thought that Jesus has endured the same. He is moved with compassion for them. He bids them find companionship in Him, and relief where He found it, in communion with the Father.-DA,pp.326,327
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