Family members. Close friends. Your spouse. Yes. They know you well. Your likes, dislikes. Your passions. Your hobbies. Your insecurities. It is nice to be around people who “get” you.
What if I said the One who gets you best is Jesus. The Bible tells us: “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;” (Psalm 139:13-14) He created you in His image. You bear His likeness. As such, we should want to declare and proclaim Jesus in our lives. In our speech, in our words, in our actions. And totally, fully in our heart. Because Jesus knows us, gets us, we should want to know Him. He is the Son of God. He came into this world fully God and fully man. He walked this earth, was in all points tempted yet never sinned. Hebrews 4:14-16: “Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”
He called people to Himself. Calling people to repent of their sins, their idols, their pride, their fallenness and to pick up their cross and follow Him. Luke 9:23 “Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” Because of Jesus, we can walk in newness of life. Because of Jesus, when we confess our sins and put our faith and trust in Him, as the Son of God and His finished work on the cross, we can lay aside our burdens and “let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,” (Hebrews 12:1). Let us pursue Him with our whole heart. Our life.
Jesus gets you because He created you. Do you know Jesus? Do you know your Redeemer, Sustainer, Provider, Savior and Lord?
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”