Man of Sorrows

I often sing "Silent Night", but I really believe that His birth went unnoticed by most due to the noise and distractions of the day.

We can depend on Christ to understand our sorrows, because he suffered all his life, and overcame all for us.  The singing shepherds in this video are the young men of Bel Aire ward, Kansas, and their YM president, my son Jess.  The setting of Christ's birth is a stable in a busy, noisy city, too crowded and busy to make room for a mother to give birth.  That was the beginning of the sorrows that prepared Him to understand our needs and atone for us.

Isaiah prophesied that the Savior would be "despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." Isaiah 53:3

 "... and thus we see the great reason of sorrow, and also of rejoicing—sorrow because of death and destruction among men, and joy because of the light of Christ unto life." Alma 28:14

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.  A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.  And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you."  John 16:20, 21, 22

"...Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ." Acts 17:3

Let's not allow the noise and distractions of our day keep us from noticing that which is most important.