The Uncommon on Common Grounds

As I was studying and praying this morning it came to me that many of us don't understand Jesus and that He totally understands everything about us. It is a reality that we have difficulty getting ourselves to understand.

He totally understands us, our lives!

Many believers question their faith. Partially because Satan puts those thoughts in our head. We also question it because when we try to consider Jesus for who He is, and we have a hard time understanding Him.

I can say to you it is all in the Bible, just believe it. That won't help you. It comes from a relationship that we all should develop with Him. We need to seek Him, just like we seek out any friend. We need to get to know Him by spending time with Him, in His word and in prayer.

You may think; “How can He understand me”, “how can He know what I am going through?”

He understands us because He created us. He understands us because He lived with us. He understands us because He walked among us. He fully understands us because He made Himself flesh and lived among us. He walked on the earth among His people, He knows how people are with other people.

He ate with us. He saw and felt pain. He worked. He had friends, He lost friends. He talked to people and people talked about Him. People liked and disliked Him. He loved people, they loved Him, and some hated Him. He went to weddings and made the wedding a better celebration. He went to funerals and interrupted them, and people went home happy. He fed people, he calmed people. He felt emotions and knew other’s emotions. He had siblings, cousins and grandparents, aunts and uncles – He knew family. He cared for people and people cared for him.

Jesus was fully human and fully God. He understood and understands us because He was with us.

When we are going through things, He knows what it is like because He has been there before.

​John 1: 1-5 (NASB)

 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.    He was in the beginning with God.    All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.    In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.    The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 1: 14-16 (NASB)

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.   John testified about Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’”   For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.

John 10:14 -16 (NASB)

I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.   I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd.

Jesus walked the face of the earth. He walked with us – like a good shepherd He was in with the sheep – not out front or behind but in the middle of the flock. His flock knows His voice, the know Him because He knows them.

When the world is making us question Him or our faith, we need to remember that He came here to walk among and be with us He totally understands what we go through in our lives.

Friends the Uncommon came and was with the common. We all walked on common ground together. 

Jesus became flesh and dwelt among us, friends He knows us far better than we know ourselves. We need to develop a deeper relationship with Him, get closer to Him, allow Him into every area of our lives so that those doubts become a knowing, a knowing that He is with us in our day to day moments.