Jesus didn't come to teach us how to stop being human.
What if becoming like Jesus doesn't mean feeling less... but trusting God more?
We spend so much time focusing on Jesus' miracles.
His healing.
His power.
His perfection.
We strive to be like Him, and somehow turn that into striving to never feel weak.
But we forget...
Jesus wept.
He was so exhausted that He slept through a storm.
He cried out to the Father in anguish.
He flipped tables in righteous anger.
He withdrew to lonely places.
He asked His friends to stay awake with Him.
He experienced sorrow, rejection, exhaustion, loneliness, grief, and pain.
He was fully God and fully human.
He gets us.
Maybe becoming more like Jesus isn't pretending we don't feel. Maybe it's learning to bring every human emotion into the presence of the Father the way He did.
Sometimes faith looks like healing.
Sometimes it looks like weeping.
Sometimes it looks like resting.
Sometimes it looks like crying out, "Father..."
Your humanity isn't what separates you from God.
Jesus never hid His humanity from the Father.
He brought every part of it into His presence.
Maybe that's what He was inviting us to do all along.
"For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need." — Hebrews 4:15–16