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God Feels What We Feel

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not comsumed, because his compassions fail not.  Lamentations 3:22

 

When I was a small boy, I thought of God as an old man with a long white beard. After all, hadn't Michelangelo and other artists painted Him that way? Perhaps in my childish mind, I thought He resembled an old man in other ways also--somewhat feeble and harmless, not quite in touch with me and my problems.

Later, as I read the Bible, I realized that God is a spirit. He does not have a body, nor is He confined to one place as a physical being would be. At the same time, He has the attributes of a person: He thinks, He speaks, He communicates, He loves, He becomes angry, He grieves. Because God is a person, He feels what we feel.

No matter what we face, God understands what we are going through. He even understands our temptations, "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). And that is why you can bring anything---anything---to Him in prayer, confident that He will understand.

From, HOPE for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions, by Billy Graham.