Perfect Understanding, Complete Help

UV 3739/10000 Perfect Understanding, Complete Help Therefore, it was essential that He had to be made like His brothers ( mankind) in every respect, so that He might (by experience) become a merciful and faithful High Priest in things related to God, to make atonement ( propitiation) for the people’s sins ( thereby wiping away the sin, satisfying divine justice, and providing a way of reconciliation between God and mankind. Hebrews 2 v 17 Jesus was on earth like every ordinary human being so that He, despite being God from the beginning, could empathise with us. He knowing our weaknesses, our suffering, our temptations, our situations, our predicaments, our fears and worries. Jesus, therefore, has total understanding, complete empathy with humanity. Being perfect, He could pay the absolute price exacted for human unrighteousness by His righteousness. Being made vulnerable like us, He understands our needs and rushes to our side when we perchance panic. He is able to help us and provide immediate assistance to us who are exposed to the very threats He was exposed to on this earth. The irony of history is that Jesus is both human, high priest who offers the sacrifice, the sacrifice that is offered as perfect atonement and the God to whom it was/ is offered. He also referred to His body as the temple or the place of sacrifice. In addition to His role in propitiation, He is the One who mediates on our behalf before God, the Father. He is the Pleader, the Advocate on our behalf when the enemy accuses us as a public prosecutor does before a High Court. He is also the One sitting in judgement who dispenses justice to the aggrieved, who redresses the grievances of His people. Unlike Moses who tired hearing the grievance of the people and had to delegate his responsibility to lesser leaders under him, Jesus does not abdicate or delegate or relegate His responsibility to us. As the Supreme Judge, Jesus plays a dual role as both Lion and Lamb. He is fierce as a lion to our adversary and gentle as a lamb with us. He is the mother hen who covers us under His wings to protect us from every predator. He is wiser than Solomon and is wisdom personified. The words from His mouth executes like a sword. He is the Word. His word is like a hammer that destroys, dismantles, demolishes and a sword that executes, a fire that destroys. He is so like us and yet so unlike us. Whatever we have experienced in life by way of temptations, loneliness, pain, sufferings, Jesus has felt it. Whatever pain we have suffered in life, Jesus has experienced it at a more intense and deeper level. His empathy with us is total, His understanding of us is complete, His ability or competence to address effectively the issues of our lives is absolute.