Rev. C.Joe McKnight
A MAN, DESPISED AND REJECTED BY MEN. Were it not sufficient that His own despised and rejected Him in that day, but now for almost two thousand years, He has been the most despised and rejected one. Jn. 1:11 His very existence as a man and as Very God has been challenged both inside and outside of the church world. Every manner of deep scorn and contempt has been heaped upon Him. He is the Love of God, made manifest. But, men have cast Him aside as something that is useless and of no value. Every person will feel despised and rejected at some time in their life. This is a very common human experience. So, perhaps in a very small measure we can empathize with Him. Never, never, never would our feelings ever begin to compare to His. He went through all this for you and me. He looked beyond His sufferings and saw the end result. That is, the joy set before Him. His knowledge and vision of the completed purpose of His life and death carried Him through all of His agonies. Heb. 12:2