Suffering -
"And they offered Him wine mixed with myrrh, but He did not take it."--Mark 15:23 "My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death." --Psalm 22:15 "Scorn has broken my heart and left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none. They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst." --Psalm 69:20-21 "Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin." --Exodus 12:21-22 The word for this Scripture is Suffering I. "I thirst" expresses the intensity of Jesus' suffering A. Physical suffering
B. Spiritual suffering II. "I thirst" exclaims Jesus' victory over suffering III. "I thirst" exhibits that Jesus can sympathize with our sufferings and satisfy our needs. "You can look upon His voluntary endurance of thirst as a means of satisfying the deep thirst of your immortal spirit." "As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God." --Psalm 42:1-2
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