Just to share part of and article over at
Brutally Honest and then my response for this Passover Season.

First from Ravi Zacharias...

Upon Holy Ground

“Prosperity, pleasure, and success may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things.”

Those are the words of the famed pleasure seeker, Oscar Wilde. In his De Profundis, written in prison, he wrote with profound earnestness about how much sorrow had taught him. He went on to add, “Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. Some day people will realize what that means. They will know nothing of life till they do.”

As I reflect on those words, I take note first of the one who wrote them. A life of pain was the farthest thing from his mind when he made his choices. In that sense, none of us ever really choose sorrow. But I take note of something else in his words. His claim is bold; he is not merely confessing an idea written across his worldview, but one he insists is written across the world: Sorrow is holy ground and those who do not learn to walk there know nothing of what living means. What he means at the very least is that some of life’s most sacred truths are learned in the midst of sorrow. He learned, for example, that raw unadulterated pleasure for pleasure’s sake is never a fulfilling pleasure. Violation of the sacred in the pursuit of happiness is not truly a source of happiness. In fact, it kills happiness because it can run roughshod over many a victim. Pleasure that profanes is pleasure that destroys.

Sorrow on the other hand--while never pursued--comes into one’s life and compels us to see our own finitude and frailty. It demands of us seriousness and tenderness if we are to live life the way it is meant to be lived. One of the most important things sorrow does is to show us what it needs and responds to. Wilde said it himself: “Sorrow is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.”

Of all the descriptions given about Jesus, there is one that unabashedly stands out to confront us. It is a description uttered by the prophet Isaiah, prodding mind and heart at once: “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted” (53:3). In this season of Easter before us, with whatever sorrows we might be holding, it is a description all the more fitting to reflect upon.

Maybe you are at a time in your life when hurt is writ large upon your thoughts. The Lord Jesus is not unacquainted with your pain. In fact, he draws near particularly with a hand of love. Your wound may still bleed for a while to remind you of your weakness. But he can help carry the pain to carry you in strength. This could indeed be holy ground for you. It was most certainly for him.

Next from xtnyoda with a few more reflections for this week of Passover:

"For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses..." Heb 4:15

There is a deep beauty in this related to the shared article... it is in the word "sympathize."

The word in scripture actually means that Jesus "literally" felt and feels our sorrows. He is the only one who can literally say, "I feel your pain." That is the power of this biblical statement.

We have done a pretty good job over the centuries of describing how that Christ died for our sins... but that is not all Christ died for...

Jesus died for our sorrows, our hurts, our wounds. When Christ died he died for those things that have hurt us as well.

We haven't done a good job teaching that part of Calvary.

Here is where healing is... inner healing from abuse and sorrows. Jesus felt them all on the cross. For those wrongs committed against us, Jesus died for those... felt those just as surely as He died for our sins... on the cross.

Oh dear wounded one... have you entered into Christ's death... suffering for your hurts?

See Christ on the cross. See yourself in Him on the cross... and... allow Him to take your pain.

You will be healed.

xtnyoda, shalomed