Thought for Today: Shabbat June 21

When we hear the word “suffering”, most of the times we think of physical pain. But phycological suffering is just as real and sometimes even more devastating. Paul knew what it was to experience phycological suffering; he told the Corinthians in a letter to them: “out of much affliction and anguish of heart” (2 Corinthians 2:4). Even Yeshua in the Garden of Gethsemane: “being in agony… prayed more earnestly” (Luke 22:44). After denying his Lord three times, Peter: “went out and wept bitterly” (Luke 22:62). Such times can come to all of us and YHVH still loves us. He will never abandon us. He is our Stronghold and Refuge.