been there/done that ..

here's a prickly thought ..

if we're going to accept the biblical accounting of both the comprehensive attack on Jesus
   and his unviolated purity in response to that attack
then we're going to have to face the fundamental challenge to our minds
   of the unlikelihood of the truth of it
   from a human standpoint ..
      and he was human


say that again
   to believe that Jesus was 'tempted in all points as we are'
   while free from submission to any temptation
      is a mind warp for us in our fallenness ..

         but it is a necessary faithhold ..
   we need it
because the source of our comfort in the attacks we ourselves face is the robust understanding that this Son of Humanity (Son of Man) understands our specific plight
   because he himself was confronted in every way that we are confronted
      and successfully endured         
                                                            ( read Hebrews 4:14,15 )
..

let that soak in

selah ~


there is great comfort in that
and hope
and energy ..

our Liberator is not an advisor
he is our Forerunner
he has gone the distance
   a far greater distance than we will ever understand or experience

so then
   we can trust this Jesus
      intimately
to walk with us in understanding through our stuff

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postscript :-

the thing that makes Christianity so different
   is the present caring intimacy of Jesus in our human experience