He Gets Us

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"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

Eric Liddell is one of the most remarkable Christian athletes who ever lived. Most people know him from the film Chariots of Fire, the Scottish sprinter who refused to run on Sunday at the 1924 Paris Olympics because of his convictions, then went on to win gold in a race that wasn't even his specialty. What fewer people know is what happened after the glory days.

Liddell went to China as a missionary and was eventually captured by Japanese forces during World War II and interned in a prison camp at Weihsien. He spent his final years not in stadiums, but behind barbed wire, ministering to fellow prisoners, tutoring children, and organizing sports for the internees to keep their spirits alive. He died in that camp in February 1945, just five months before it was liberated.

One of the testimonies that came out of that camp afterward was the account of a young man who had been struggling terribly with despair. He went to Liddell and poured out his heart, and Liddell didn't offer him platitudes. He said, "I know what it is to have everything stripped away and to wonder what God is doing." He had lived it. He had run in glory and he had suffered in a prison camp, and because of that, the young man felt genuinely understood. Not just advised. Understood.

That is a pale picture of what Jesus offers us in Hebrews 4:15. The writer tells us that our High Priest, Jesus Himself, was touched with the feeling of our infirmities. He was tempted in all points as we are. He knew hunger, exhaustion, grief, betrayal, loneliness, and physical agony. He wept at a graveside. He sweat drops of blood in a garden. He cried out from a cross.

When you bring your pain to Jesus, you are not bringing it to someone who has only read about suffering in a book. You are bringing it to the One who entered into the full weight of human experience and carried it without sin. He is not a distant God who looks down from a comfortable heaven and offers you theological explanations. He is a Savior who says, "I know. I have been there. Come to me."

Whatever you are carrying tonight, He understands it at a depth no one else can reach.

Let's pray: Lord Jesus, thank You for not staying at a distance. Thank You for entering into our pain, our temptation, our sorrow. Because You understand, we can come boldly to You tonight with everything we are carrying. In Your precious name, Amen.

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Episode Title: A High Priest Who Knows | Nightlight with RTTBROS

Episode Description:

This Nightlight episode with RTTBROS offers bible wisdom daily rooted in Hebrews 4:15 and a truth that changes everything about prayer: Jesus doesn't just hear your pain, He has felt it. Gene Kissinger brings biblical wisdom teaching and christian wisdom to anyone who's ever wondered if God truly understands what they're going through.

Scripture Reference: Hebrews 4:15

Full Transcript: [See devotion text above]

Reflection Questions:

Has there ever been a moment when you felt like God was too far removed from your situation to truly understand? How does Hebrews 4:15 speak to that feeling?

Eric Liddell's suffering gave him credibility to comfort others. How has your own pain made you more able to minister to someone else?

The verse says we can "come boldly unto the throne of grace." What would it look like for you to approach God more boldly with your real struggles this week?

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He Still Speaks to the Storm

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"And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm." — Mark 4:39

I want to tell you about a little girl named Clara. She couldn't have been more than five years old. Her family lived in tornado country in the Oklahoma panhandle, and one spring evening a storm rolled in fast and mean, the kind that rattles the windows and turns the sky a color that makes your stomach drop. Her older brothers ran to the basement. Her mother hurried to close shutters. And Clara stood in the kitchen, absolutely frozen, her little face white as a sheet.

Her father walked in, took one look at her, and just knelt down and took her hand. He didn't explain the meteorology of the storm. He didn't hand her a book on weather patterns. He just took her hand, looked her in the eyes, and said, "I've got you." And something happened in that little girl. The storm didn't stop. The thunder kept rolling. But Clara was no longer afraid, because she was holding onto someone who she believed, with her whole heart, could handle whatever that storm brought.

The disciples had a moment just like that on the Sea of Galilee. These weren't timid men, several of them were seasoned fishermen who had worked those waters their whole lives. But this storm was something else. The waves were crashing over the sides of the boat, and they were convinced they were going to die. And Jesus was asleep. Asleep! That detail has always fascinated me. Here's the Son of God, resting peacefully in the middle of a storm that had professional fishermen absolutely beside themselves with fear.

They woke Him, crying out that they were perishing, and Jesus stood up and did something that still gives me chills after all these years in ministry. He didn't explain the storm. He didn't calm the disciples first. He spoke directly to the wind and the waves. "Peace, be still." And the Bible says the wind ceased and there was a great calm.

Friend, Jesus has authority over every storm in your life, physical, financial, relational, every one of them. And here's what I want you to hold onto tonight. He is in your boat. He may seem quiet right now. You may be wondering if He even notices how hard the waves are hitting. He notices. He is there. And when the moment is right, He will stand up and speak, and the storm will obey Him, because everything in creation answers to its Maker.

You don't have to understand the storm. You just have to hold the hand of the One who can calm it.

Let's pray: Lord Jesus, You are Lord over every storm we face. Help us to trust Your presence even when the waves are high and the night is dark. Remind us that You are in our boat, and that is enough. In Your name we pray, Amen.

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SHOW NOTES

Episode Title: He Still Speaks to the Storm | Nightlight with RTTBROS

Scripture Reference: Mark 4:39

Full Transcript: [See devotion text above]

Reflection Questions:

What storm are you facing right now that feels like it's about to swamp your boat? Have you told Jesus about it in specific, honest prayer?

The disciples asked, "Carest thou not that we perish?" Have you ever felt that way with God? What does it mean to you that Jesus was in the boat the whole time?

How does knowing that Jesus has authority over your circumstances change the way you approach your fear today?

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