Murals (2008) by PHANTAST - Graffiti - Cultural Music & Art Association inc. - 98 Milne St. Benleigh
Jesus,the Suffering Servant.
"Despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces.."(Isaiah 53).
Christ, who had not avoided "dis-grace" himself, commands us to receive strangers, clothe the naked, feed the hungry, and visit those in prison (Matthew 25:31).
According to an old tradition of Benedictine monks, Lazarus, not St. Peter, guards the entrance into heaven.
Early Christians were renowned within the Roman Empire for their support of the poor and suffering.
The Christians, unlike their pagan neighbours, redily ransomed their friends from barbarian captors, and when plague hit, the Christians tended their sufferers, whereas the pagans abandoned the sick at the first symptoms.
Regardless of how the world treats them, the poor and the sick have assurance, because of Jesus, that God knows no undesirables. (Philip Yancey).