We have the infirmities of sin, to which Christ died for and we have the infirmities of suffering, to which the Spirit helps, so no matter our infirmity God has either already dealt with it or will help us through it. God does not always deliver us from suffering in this life, but God will not forsake us in the fire. God may not remove all suffering, but God will not remove us from His love. The Spirit does not remove the trial, but the Spirit comes beside us in our infirmities to help us. The Spirit does not lift us above the infirmities, but helps us to push and persevere. Glorious, comforting truth.
Octavius Winslow said "Approaching, He takes hold of the
burden. Constrained by a love which no thought can conceive, moved by a
tenderness no tongue can describe, he advances, and places the power of his
Godhead beneath the pressure -- and thus he helps our infirmity..Whether it be the groaning from a pressure of sin, or from a sense of desire, or from a conviction of want, or from the smiting hand of God himself, that groaning ascends to heaven, and bears to the throne of the Eternal, whose ear bends to the softest whisper, and hearkens to the gentlest sigh of his child, a confession, or a request, which shall not be unheard, unheeded, or forgotten."....."Himself took our infirmities and bare our sickness....That very infirmity, which now bows you to the earth, by reason of which you can in no wise lift up yourself, your Saviour bore. It bowed him to the dust, and brought the crimson drops to his brow. "
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