Jesus' empathy

[Urban_Legend]

There is so much pain and suffering in this world. People all over, weather they believers or not, without favour or discrimination trails and darkness overcomes us all at different seasons in our lives.
It's hard to understand human suffering, most users in this forum are from "first-world" countries which is even harder to understand suffering where as others from developing/third-world countries like myself who is exposed more frequently to the works of the devil.....what I'm trying to say is my question doesn't come from a place of mis-understandment or naivety but rather from that of objectivity in experiencing suffering and the effects of suffering directly and indirectly.

A popular question or reason that many give why they have a problem with their faith or and with Christianity is the basis of this question: "How can a Loving God allow this much human suffering?"...and the basis of reasoning is its true that in [Hebrews 4:15 the Bible says For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet he did not sin.]...But what is the depth of this empathy? The Bible is obviously saying that Jesus went through everything we go through and more, and the argument is not even that, coz it's believable but rather the argument is that the difference between Jesus and man is that Jesus was God and he knew it [Luke 2: 44-50 they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances, and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. And when his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress. And he said to them, Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them.]

 

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[Sal Robinson]

Dude, correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel like we complain about the problems in the world, as though it’s god’s business, but he uses us for his business! We are an integral part, if that’s what you were saying, you have really helped me

 

[HopefulHepatica]

That's beautiful, thank you for sharing that. I had recently read Luke and had a moment where I was like "Wait what?" and you really shed some light on that. It's incredibly sweet imagining child Jesus, assured of Who He was at that moment. I'd come to thinking too, how great our God is that He borne Himself into flesh and walked this Earth, and experienced it all with us.

It makes me think of that song "Running Up That Hill", the singer insisting that if God switched places with them, that He'd surely be unable to handle it either. It's just more of the world not understanding who Jesus was, because God WAS there, and sent His one and ONLY son, born of God & man, to take ALL of that burden onto Himself, in our place.

God loves us so much, and doesn't want us to suffer. In having a relationship with Him, we're given the opportunity to experience His healing & His grace, and while we are to experience pain and hardship in this life as it is not our home, He makes the burden light and we're reminded we will not be destroyed by it. He also sends us into the world to ease the suffering of those who don't know Him, and sends His light throughout the world, even in the darkest of places. It's something the world does not acknowledge, which is why they often question the whole "Why does God let us suffer?"