We get through our tough times better when we remember our solidarity with Christ and His solidarity with us. We suffer with and for the One who suffered with and for us. When He came in the flesh, it was more than to merely identify with us. He entered into all the pain of humanity; He fully embraced being one with us all the way down to our own suffering and death. He did not come to take away all of our pain and all of our suffering; He enters into ours so that we can enter into His. He did not come to exempt you from suffering and your cross; He came to show you how it is done. This full identification with Him, this full solidarity with Him will get us through.
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” Galatians 2:20 (NASB)
