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It Fills Me With Emotion. Fills me up.W/ Love & Graditude.

It Makes Me Cry.Until I feel my heart swell.

I only got a very small, very brief, view of what it could be (to see ur only son die), my son was NOT Even remotely close to what Jesus went thru.Nor what he did(stating the obvious).

Just the part of watching ur only son die,& it wouldn't have even been in the same fashion(obvious) .

As Jehovah promises HE will not give us more then we can bear.

As long as we stand firm, & adhere to His word, we will not leave us. That is exactly what I did; before my son went into harm's way.

And he Blessed me with giving my son back to me.

I can't help but be filled w/ love & appreciation, 'til I feel the tears well up in my eyes, & my heart swell w/ love and graditude.

While @ the same time I feel intense deep sadness. Then I remind myself; it was to be.

Had to be.

Yes, I have been feeling up and down the past month after having a miscarriage and last night I felt quite bad as I was asked when I was going to be trying again by a family member, which reminded me of what happened and made me sad again. I prayed to Jehovah and asked for his help. This morning before I got out of bed I read some of the Yearbook and this really picked me up. It was like Jehovah was helping me to see that things aren't too bad, especially after reading about the way some of the brothers were treated in Russia. I thank Jehovah for making me feel better today and reminding me of what I have. New development: My husband desperately wants to leave his job as it's too exhausting and is taking him away from meetings and ministry. Today was the final straw for him and he has finally decided to resign. I prayed to Jehovah that he would help us because I've only just started my new business and have barely started advertising and haven't brought much in. Only a couple of hours later, I got an e-mail from a customer saying that they want a website and flyers and everything and they want to use us as their only supplier. Jehovah is truly great and always provides what we need at the right time.

That reminds me of the illustration (you probably have heard before!) with the switchman who operated the controls for a bridge. Whenever a train would come, he would hit the switch so that the bridge would lock into place and a train could cross. However, one evening the controls were not working. So he had to run from his shack to come to where there was a lever so that he could operate the lock manually. Just as he was applying pressure to the lever he heard the sound of a familiar voice. It was his 4 yr old son yelling, "Daddy, where are you?"His first impulse was to run to snatch the boy to safety, but he knew he could never make it back to the lever in time. Either the people on the train or his son must die. The train sped swiftly across the bridge and no one was aware of the tiny broken body thrown mercilessly into the river below. No one saw the father walking home slower than ever before, to tell his wife how he had sacrificied their son. Now if you can even begin to imagine the emotions that went through that man's heart, you can begin to understand the feelings of our Father when he sacrificed His son to bridge the gap between us and eternal life.

I cried when I read that illustration for the first time! Its a little bit longer but I tried to sum it up as much as possible.

Those are good points to meditate on. We are frequently reminded of the great sacrifice that Jesus, in his love, made for us. But we forget that the Father also displayed his love in this matter.

Jesus tells us that his Father loves him (John 3:35), so the Father was deeply affected by his Son's betrayal and death. It was a great sacrifice for the Father, also, even though it was the Son who died.

That's why the popular verse at John 3:16 begins, not with what Jesus did, but with what the Father did: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believegth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (King James Version)

Yes, Jesus loves us. And so does his Father, Jehovah God. Giving his Son on our behalf was a tremendous sacrifice for the Father, just as surrendering his soul in our behalf was a tremendous sacrifice for the Lord Jesus. It is in this great love from the Father and the Son that we find our salvation.

Well First you are a Witness therefore a true answer cannot be given as your Translation is different from everyone else's. But lets do this first. Use a Bible that everyone can agree upon not the new world translation (notice no caps). I suggest using a Thompson Chain Reference Bible as 500 scholars have worked on this Bible and come to total agreement. NIV works best. Also there is a Strong's Concordance as well as a Hailey's Bible handbook. Nice try to use this forum to sell a lie. Russell and Rutherford are frauds.

What did Thomas say to Jesus after Jesus was crucified? What does John 8:58 say? And John chapter 1 say's what. If you read any other script other then the fraud new world translation you know what it say's. Come on the watch tower tract society is nothing but goof's and liar's. Not one of the member's that wrote the new world translation has any degree's in biblical studies.

All of the events you mention were pre-arranged.

They had to happen.

It was orchestrated to be this way.

Therefore, God must have felt that his plan was unfolding as it should.

Jesus had voluntarily accepted this eventuality.

He must have felt things were working out as planned.

Of course, that doesn't take into account the emotion.

no one can answer this question but GOD, however your writing stirs emotions, and I am sure he must have been in great grief, however he also knew he was having great victory in turmoil. In the world we live today that same effect is upon the human race and in the earth even roses have thorns.

And how does He feel today, when men scoff at His offer of reconciliation, and trample under foot the blood of the covenant?

He is great in mercy,

but terrible in wrath.

The suffering of the Messiah was foretold in the book of Isaiah long before the birth of Jesus. It tells of the suffering of Christ in Isaiah 52:14 It says, "Just as there were many who were appalled by him-his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness-" The book of Isaiah goes on to say in 53:2-5, "He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of many sorrows, and familiar with suffering. 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. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed." It goes on to say in verse 10, "Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering," and in verse 12, "For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."

This should always remind us of the great and awesome love of the Father who sent the Lamb to die for us! He took our punishment on that cross!

If God so treated His Son when He became sin on our behalf - what's to become of those who refuse to turn away from their own sin?