What if His sorrow is his splendor?

Jesus: Man of Sorrows
Merriam-Webster defines sorrow as ‘deep distress, sadness, or grief over the loss of someone or something loved’.
Jesus came to reveal God’s face to us. Jesus was the Man of Sorrows, thus God is a God of Sorrows, but his sorrow is over the loss of his creation. His sorrow is his splendor in that it reflects his intense love for me and is the catalyst for his Plan of Salvation. Could it be that this is the only attribute of God that can be ascribed to mankind? If we had never sinned, God may not have known sorrow. And yet, would he truly be God if He could know only joy and peace? For God to be the God who associates with us in every area of our life, he has to have the capacity for pain and sorrow. But I wonder, if it were not for mankind, would that capacity for sorrow have ever been filled?
Lucifer’s rebellion must have carved out the first well of sorrow in the great heart of God, for surely if God loved any of his creation, He loved Lucifer. Is that how God first knew sorrow?
His sorrow became His splendor. When we look on the face of Jesus, we see the face of God, and we cannot deny the sorrow. It is part of who God is. We like to think of God as kind, loving, merciful, holy, exalted, ect. But very rarely, except on Good Friday, do we praise His sorrow. But what if his sorrow is the most beautiful of all his attributes? His sorrow put the action in His love; a love that sorrowed to the extent that the only relief was the Plan of Salvation.
Not only is He the God of Sorrows, in that he grieves over the loss of His creation, but he is the God of sorrows in that he grieves over our misfortunes and losses. Sorrow as a noun is who God is, sorrow as a verb that God feels our pain. We can never know a sorrow that God has not already felt, and is feeling with us.
Turn your eyes on Jesus, look full in his wonderful face; the face of sorrow, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of his Glory and Grace.
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Man of Sorrows, thank you for the sorrow you felt for me. Let me feel your sorrow for your world that is still lost without You.