Knowing Him Daily

27.August.2026

Yesterday we talked about what it meant for Jesus to actually become human, to grow up, to feel, to navigate rejection just like we do. That’s not just theology, it’s the foundation for something very personal: He understands you.

Not from a distance or as someone observing human struggle from heaven and offering sympathy from afar. He experienced it.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. Isaiah 53:3

He knows what it feels like to want to be liked and not be. He knows rejection intimately, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, not once removed from it but personally familiar with it.

That is important because so much of what we carry, our wounds, our fear of not being enough, our ache to belong, we assume God can’t fully relate to, but He can. And here’s the thing, we were never meant to carry those things ourselves in the first place. We’re meant to surrender them to Him.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Matthew 11:29-30

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 
Hebrews 4:15

And here’s what makes that even more significant: He didn’t face those temptations with His deity intact, calling on divine power to make it easier. He set that aside and came fully man, facing everything we face with the same limitations we carry.

I’ve heard people say, “Well, he’s God, so of course He handled it.” That misses the entire point. Had He faced temptation while still holding onto full divine advantage, none of it would have been real. His struggle wouldn’t have been real. His victory wouldn’t have been real, and His example wouldn’t have been something we could ever hope to follow. But that’s not what happened. He genuinely emptied Himself and overcame as a man, in total dependence on the Father, the same dependence we’re called to walk in. His struggle was completely real, and so was His victory, because He faced it all without the advantage people assume He kept.

When you come to Him with your pain, your rejection, your struggle to feel liked or wanted, you’re not bringing it to someone who’s guessing at what that’s like. You’re bringing it to someone who lived it, felt it fully, and still built His entire identity on the Father’s love rather than on how people responded to Him.

That’s your invitation too. He understands exactly where you are, and He’s already shown you the way through it.

If you have never given your life to Jesus Christ, you can do that right now. Pray this with me:

Dear Heavenly Father, 

I confess that I have sinned, and I believe Jesus died for my sins and rose again on the third day. I ask Jesus, come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. Thank You for saving me. 

In Jesus’ name, 
Amen.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.