Some people just don’t get it. But what if you were like Jesus? What if everyone around you did not understand you? What if your closest allies did not get it?
We all want to be heard. We all need to be understood. But what if you could not get those basic wants and needs satisfied? What if your closest friends betrayed you at your most difficult moment? What if no matter how plainly you spoke, no matter how effectively you calmed yourself and explained the facts and circumstances to
the police officer, or the judge, or the jury, or the prison guard, or the executioner, none of them could understand you? What could be worse than that? What could be more frustrating?
The only thing worse than that would be abandonment. Abandonment not from your friends, not from your neighbors, but from the very person who brought you to life. Abandonment from your birth-giving Father. Jesus knew his father’s love for him. He knew his father secured a place for him in the Kingdom, but he wanted to continue to live on earth.
We are just as human as Jesus. Jesus, His Father, and the Holy Spirit have given us Grace. A future beyond time and space. But like Jesus, we are reluctant or hesitant to take the gift. We don’t get it, the disciples did not get, the Jews did not get it ... even Jesus struggled with the love of our Creator. His love is too simple, too deep, too unconditional for all of us to grasp.
—Bob Simeone
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