Saturday... It is hard to really understand but He understands.

I have lived a lot of places. I have experienced a lot of things but that doesn't mean I understand everything that people go through. This year we bought a new house for our home, now that is something that I have never understood but now I do. It is way different than renting. It really is. I now understand more than I did before.

Now there is also a commonality and understanding for all of us who have had Covid. The aloneness you feel when you can't touch the people you love, your deep emotions you feel when you can't be with your wife when she is in the hospital and you fear she won't come home. It makes that mask you wear so much more important and that shot you take more necessary because you don't want to go through that again.

Hebrews 2:18 (NLT) says, "Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested." Jesus understands what it is like to be a human and He wants to help us.

Verses 14-15 (MSG) says, "Since the children are made of flesh and blood, it's logical that the Savior took on flesh and blood in order to rescue them by death, taking it into himself, he destroyed the Devil's hold on death and freed all who cower through life. scared to death of death." He who is God understands what it is to die. He understands what it is to suffer. He understands what it is to be tested. He understands what it is to be rejected. He understands what it is we are going through right now because He became flesh and blood and he conquered death. It is hard to understand but He who is God understands what it is to be human. And He wants to help us and He is able to help where help is needed.

Now I can put my trust in someone like that. It really is hard to understand but He understands and he want to help us. He really does. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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