Really, He Totally Gets Us

“For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are - yet was without sin.”
Hebrews 4:15

As mere mortals with a limited understanding of, well, almost everything it can be difficult to comprehend that God really understands us. Scripture tells us our great high priest - Jesus understands, that He gets us. As I was thinking about how the Creator of the universe gets us and loves us even when we are hard to love, I started to think about just how much we have in common with Him. Aside from the whole made in His image concept - which is a pretty big thing on its own here are some other things we have in common.

Jesus was born - just like us. He in the incarnation of God He could have just turned up on the scene - but He was born. He grew up in an ordinary family and had to do what his parents asked of him, just like we had to as kids. I would hazard a guess that many of us have a “my parents forgot me” story somewhere in their childhood memories. Jesus’ parent forgot him at church and didn’t remember until a day had passed and three days had passed by the time they found him (Luke 2:42-46). 

In His short 33 years of life, Jesus didn’t just teach, heal and care for others - He lived life. He got baptized. He grieved the loss of people He cared about (John the Baptist and Lazarus). He was betrayed by friends. People behaving badly, who should have known better, frustrated him. He enjoyed a good party and a good meal. He was homeless (See Luke 9:58), He wanted to make sure is mom was ok after He was gone (John 19:26-27). He cried, He lost his temper (with the money changers and religious leaders), He laughed, He loved, He lived and He died. Jesus was a son, a brother, a friend, a healer, a teacher and He is God. 

He is God and He gets us - because for 33 years He was one of us. He loves us because He knows who we are supposed to be, He knows what we really look like under all the earthly stuff that covers us. 

We have lots in common in the Creator of the universe and someday we’ll get Him - the same way He gets us - perfectly.

A Prayer
Father - Thank you for loving us so much that you came here to the rough and often forsaken planet to be one of us, to be with us so You could really get us. Thank you for loving us even when we fall short. Help us to remember, that no matter what we are facing You understand and you are with us. In the name Jesus, who really does understand - Amen.