When Jesus became incarnate with us, He experienced the full human condition. He came into our loneliness; no one tarried to pray with Him. He felt our abandonment and cried, “My God, why have You forsaken me?”. He embraced our pain, when He embraced the cross. He knew rejection. “He came to His own and His own did not receive Him.” He was betrayed. He was denied. His love was spurned. He knew misunderstanding. His family thought He was crazy. He came into all of this so that we can come to Him in all of this. We make ourselves one with Him who made Himself one with us.
“He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. Isaiah 53:3-4 (ESV)
