(Hebrews 4:15) Jesus is able to identify with our human weaknesses.

Because God is transcendent, holy, and perfect, we often think he is totally detached from our human feelings, struggles, and pain.

We think he could never understand the difficulty we experience in our fallen condition.

However, Hebrews 4:15 reminds us that Jesus became fully human, and he experienced our weaknesses through many temptations, yet without sinning.

He experienced insults, rejection, loneliness, and death—even crucifixion on a Roman cross.

This is an amazing truth of Christianity; it is unique among all religions.

Instead of requiring us to save ourselves by somehow finding God, Jesus Christ descended from heaven into our human fallenness, our rebellion, and the world’s brokenness to save us.

This is what the love of God is.

Fully human, Jesus Christ lived a perfect life in obedience to God.

He lived the life before God that we could never live.

He did not just save us by dying on the cross, but also by living a perfect life in our place.

When we fully internalize this truth, we stop striving to be approved by God.

When we fully internalize this truth, we enter into a spiritual rest from our own efforts.

The next time you feel hopeless because of your struggles in life, remind yourself that Jesus not only experienced the same pain and identifies with our weaknesses, but he also continues to enter into our weaknesses and suffering now.

Next time you feel alone and struggling, remember Jesus is standing alongside us. 

What an amazing truth!