For Christ also suffered once for sins, 

the righteous 

for the unrighteous, 

that he might bring us to God...

1 Peter 3:18 ESV

Jesus knows what it is to suffer. 

He left heaven on a mission and the people he came to save (literally) spit in his face.

He knows the loss of relationship, as he stepped out of fellowship with God.

He loved people, and they forgot him, disowned him, went to sleep when he needed them, didn't "get" him, rejected him.

Jesus was stripped, humiliated, abused, and murdered. 

His mission ended in failure

He knows what it is to suffer. 

And he knows what suffering unjustly is. 

He is the righteous one.

Who suffered for me, the unrighteous one.

And on Easter Friday, his followers, his team, those closest to him, saw no reason in it all.

And yet there was a purpose in Jesus suffering;

"That he might bring us to God"

Jesus suffering, his unjust suffering, had purpose, purpose that was seen after the resurrection. 

Peter, one who abandoned Jesus, now writes about that.

In our trouble, our suffering, we can put our faith, our trust, our hope, in Jesus, 

in the one who knows.

#sufferingsaviour

#dearlyloved

#onedayallwillbemadenew