Jesus Wept

Think of Jesus.

What is the first thing we think of him?

It usually isn't that he was human. Sure he was God, but he was also human.

Grasping the fact that Jesus was in fact a human being is one of the most crucial aspects when we think about Jesus.

Emotions pour out of all of us. Emotions are what set us apart from everything else. We're alive, but being alive isn't what makes us human, it is the strong element that we have emotions. Rage, hurt, joy, frustration, thrill, and these are just the subset of what we can feel. All these emotions that we can feel are often ignored, yet they control our lives, they indeed are what make us human. They set us apart from a tree, a plant, a rock, a cloud. But while they set us apart, they also make us connected with Jesus.

Now Jesus was a man. A human. Someone that felt emotions. Everyday, just like us.
Remember that Jesus was God, but at the same time all human. God was a human.

I sit around so many times hurting, laughing, rejoicing, raging, and I forget that God felt all these things that I feel.

Everyone has had the, "no one on this earth knows how I feel right now" moment. That moment where the world hits you hard. The moment where the person you trust most hurts you. The moment in your room where you are all alone and it feels like you're the only soul on the earth.

But there is One that does.

Jesus.

Jesus knows exactly how you feel right now.

He knows no matter what the emotion is in your life right now.

If it is joy, then Jesus knows how that feels.

If is is anguish, then guess what? Yup, Jesus knows.

There is a famous verse in the Bible and it is famous because it is the shortest verse in the entire Bible.

The verse is John 35.

The verse simply reads, "Jesus wept".

It gets recognition for the sake of how short it is. For how two little words get assigned a whole verse. But what if there is much more to that. What if though all the translations and assigning of verses and chapters to the Bible, God wanted these two words to have a verse to themselves.

By saying Jesus wept, we can see that Jesus feels. That Jesus had moments where he was broken. There were points where there was nothing Jesus could do but weep. Jesus was perfect, he performed miracles , and witnessed to thousands, but there were times when all that came to a halt and Jesus just had to weep.

He was human. He wept. He felt like you did or how you feel right now.

Jesus gets it. He is the one that understands how you feel.

Yes, Jesus was God, but he also was human.

Jesus wept.

So the next time you think of God, remember that He is the All Powerful and All Mighty One, but that he is also the one that knows how you feel. Jesus came to the earth and lived just as you did and he has a lot more in common than you would realize. Just because Jesus was perfect and lived a perfect life, does not mean that he never felt an emotion. Because Jesus felt every possible emotion there ever was.

He knows how you feel.

He felt it.