Opus 2024-300: Setting the Example

We have a verse in the Bible that points that Jesus went through all the experiences that we might go through.

(Heb 2:18 KJV)  For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

I know it doesn’t specifically say that, but the inference is there.

One of the reasons why the incarnation is so important is that we know Jesus went through life as a human being and that He knows what it is to be a human being.

This morning I had another insight.  I’m not sure it’s world shaking, but I enjoyed it.  I thought, as I was sitting out in the dark communing with the Lord, about how He tended to look for ways to get away also.  We know there are the verses that talk about Him going away by Himself to pray.  I think He might’ve looked at those verses in Proverbs that talked about it being better to live on the roof than with a cranky woman.  I don’t know that He had a cranky woman in His life, but he certainly had some obtuse disciples and crowds pushing in on Him all the time.

I think Jesus looked for chances to get away where He could just sit in the quiet and listen for the voice of His father.  He could have done it on a mountaintop.  He could have done it on the house top.  Perhaps there was a front porch that He had that He enjoyed like I have.  He might have done it on the boat if you could get the disciples to be quiet.  Somehow, somewhere, I think He found ways to be alone with the Father.

I am encouraged by that common experience that we have.  What a joy to have Savior who walked the Earth.

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