Jesus Gets It!

Exhaustion.  Most all of us suffer through it from time to time.  Physical, emotional, mental.  It takes it's toll on our bodies, our hearts and our days.  I could barely drag myself out of bed this week....bone-weary upon waking, dead tired at the end of the day, it just seemed I had no energy for life and living.

As I listened to my Pastor teach this past Sunday, he said something that caused a light to go on in my head; "Jesus gets it!"  He understands my tired.  He understands my weakness.  I know we are told this in the Bible, but I never really thought about it, or had it illuminate my thinking and understanding of Jesus' humanity before.  Wow.  I love when a characteristic or part of the Lord becomes real in my heart.  It adds a new layer to my understanding of Him, bringing me to a deeper relationship with my Savior.

In the garden at Gethsemane, Jesus must have been exhausted.  Praying for hours, overwhelmed with the knowledge of the suffering to come.  Matthew 26:36-38  Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and He said, "Sit here while I go over there to pray." He took Peter and Zebedee's two sons, James and John, and He became anguished and distressed.  He told them, "My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death.  Stay here and keep watch with Me."  How about when Jesus was in the wilderness?  After fasting for 40 days, I'm sure Jesus must have been beyond tired, beyond hungry. beyond weak.   Matthew 4:2  For forty days and forty nights He fasted and became very hungry.  

I find it so comforting that Jesus understands what it's like to be me.  To feel tiredness of body and soul.  It makes coming to Him so much easier, knowing I will find compassion and mercy.

What a marvelous mystery our Savior is!  Fully God, fully Man.  Fully able to relate to me in my struggles, and my weaknesses and fully able to restore and strengthen.  Lord, You are amazing!!

Lord, thank You that You wore our humanity.  I love knowing that You understand what it's like to get hungry, to be tired, to feel temptation.  You know firsthand what it's like to struggle with the limitations of a human body.  Make this more and more enlightening to me so that I may know You better and be more in awe of You.  Let this knowledge make You more real in my life.

Think about Jesus' humanity, and draw closer to Him this week,  Let it become more real!