Our High Priest

"Our high priest is able to understand our weaknesses. When He lived on earth, He was tempted in every way that we are, but He did not sin." Hebrews 4:15

Read how J. B. Phillips translates Hebrews 4:15: For we have no superhuman High Priest to whom our weaknesses are unintelligible - He Himself has shared fully in al our experience of temptation, except He never sinned.

It's as if he knows that we will say to God . . . : "God, it's easy for you up there. You don't know how hard it is from down here." So he boldly proclaims Jesus' ability to understand. Look at the wording again.

He Himself. Not an angel. Not an ambassador. Not an emissary, but Jesus Himself.

Shared fully. Not partially. Not nearly. Not to a large degree. Entirely! Jesus shared fully.

In all our experience. Every hurt. Each ache. All the stresses and all the strains. No exceptions. No substitutes. Why? So he could sympathize with our weaknesses.

From "In the Eye of the Storm"

By Max Lucado, taken from "Grace for the Moment"