Jesus Understands

John 11:35---“Jesus wept”

When you’re going through a difficult time, nothing means more than having someone come alongside who understands what you’re going through. We can know He understands us because we know He has walked in our shoes as a person. Jesus understands us and knows what we go through each minute because He lives with us. He lives both within us and outside of us. In addition, no one can understand us like He understands. Even we cannot understand ourselves as He understands us. He knows more about us than we will ever know about ourselves until we see Him face to face. We have His spirit alive within us. When we recognize we have this person, Jesus, with us on the inside, this recognition is the most profound step in our journey on earth. The recognition that Christ by the Holy Spirit are alive within us is so profound the recognition is life-changing and life-altering. Jesus knew temptation: “He was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan” (Mark 1:13). Jesus knew poverty: “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head” (Matthew 8:20). Jesus knew frustration: “He scattered the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.… ‘Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!’” (John 2:15-16). Jesus knew weariness: “Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well” (John 4:6). Jesus knew disappointment: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem…how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks,…but you were not willing” (Luke 13:34). Jesus knew rejection: “From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him” (John 6:66). Jesus knew sorrow: “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death” (Matthew 26:38). Jesus knew ridicule: “Again and again they struck him…and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid [mocking] homage to him” (Mark 15:19). Jesus knew loneliness: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). Hebrews 4:15---For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.