As Jesus walked the sea of Gallie, we can only question what he thought in his Godly mind. He must of, at times, looked out at the sea he created and smiled like Vincent van Goh did to his finished paintings. I have this potent thought, that the sun must have come down over the massive surrounding mountains across the sea, shinning down on a certain savior who put his feet in the sand of the shore.
Imagine with me, waking up in a world that you created. You look out your window and everything you see is nothing less than a product of your finished painting. Every bird you hear and bug you see is your product. This entire reality as you know it is your beautiful project.
Every single creature in the ocean was known by Jesus and not a micro atom was unknown to him. All the mysterious of the world, from “bigfoot” sightings to unknown creatures in our oceans was known in detail to Christ. He was the final truth of every mystery of the world, a world that scientist attempt to figure out to this day.
Jesus, the Christ was hated, mocked and was seen as the bottom of bottoms on earth to most individuals 2000 years ago. The roman guards had quit the time laughing at his frail body as he lie in anguish from the brutal kicks to his body. Saliva ran down his beaten face from being spit on. Some argue that the whip that was used to hit his back could have revealed his bones to some extent, considering that it was made to tear flesh. He was then forced to carry an extremely awkward and heavy cross, the same cross he would later suffocate on to his death.
Now imagine with me again, how through all this, he had an astronomical comprehension of human suffering. In Psalms the writer says “put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?“. Not a tear has occurred in all human history that is not immediately grabbed and put into his book. Or, in other words, not a tear has fallen that he himself hasn’t felt.
Jesus, the perfect psychologist
When someone is in need of a psychologist, they typically pay some money, spend some time and listen in on what someone in the field has to say. If someone is battling the pains of depression, anxiety or fears, then a professional can offer some valuable help. Some need this assistance, and the professionals can really fine tune an individual’s mental state.
The only issue with hiring a psychologist is that they never really know how you actually feel. If someone is battling PTSD, they can only go off what the victim tells them, attempting to recollect various theories from professional literature to help the one in need. They can definitely offer assistance, but ultimately the only individual who knows the experience of their specific PTSD, is that individual and no one else on the planet. The same can be said about any part of human experience, we all feel various levels of suffering that no one experiences but only us. While some could argue that we feel similar pains, the reality is our sufferings are very specific to us. Getting help from a professional for suffering, especially mental suffering, is like trying to describe to someone about a beautiful dream you had…it never will come close to doing justice.
Why is this? why does this issue arise? The simple answer is something called “empathy”. empathy is having a comprehension of someone. The interesting thing about this, is that we as humans will never actually experience full empathy for each other, because we are limited to our own conscious experience. It quite literally would require us to live the exact same experience as the one who suffers to actually have a fullness of empathy for them. We can only say “I know how you feel, I’ve been there” but the reality is we haven’t literally experienced the exact same pains that individual is feeling. We only empathize with them because we too have similar or same sicknesses or sufferings. Each and every person walking on the earth, right now, has their own individual mental and physical pain that only they know is true…only they experience. Each conscious experience is unique and independent. This can be seen as both beautiful and lonely, in an ironic way.
Jesus has a bold way of stiff-arming what would be “lonely” above. He, a God, felt our pains and sorrows. When you’re suffering, your specific conscious experience has been felt before. In a sense, your pains and sorrows have already been lived. Jesus knows exactly your suffering; in fact, he knows the suffering of the hundreds of billions of people who walk and have walked the earth also.
The only way a psychologist could truly help you is to first live your conscious experience, to actually know how you feel. To feel your experience based off your brain chemistry and levels of serotonin, dopamine, Gaba, endorphins and norepinephrine. The radical differences in these chemicals are impossible to know in someone without experience itself. Studying external behavior and reading professional literature is nothing compared to actually the experience itself.
There is not a doubt in my mind that Jesus felt our pains and sorrows literally. Being a God, he knew as much as you and I know, that our experience is individual to us. in fact, our “experience” is the only thing we have in this existence. We never really own anything unique to us, except our own experience. He knew that in order to truly help, he must feel the dreadful mental, physical and emotional sorrows of being human for each one of us. Think with me, for this moment, of all the horrible executions, accidents, robberies and wars that have occurred. Now dig deeper and know that every single experience every individual has had in those instances were felt by Jesus. All the extreme experiences of depression, drugs and alcohol addictions. All the sickening feelings of heartbreak that one has felt. All the difficult bouts of PTSD that service men/woman felt and feel. The horror of losing a loved one. The list is endless.
Your pains have been experienced already, and because of this, the savior has perfected empathy. He is the embodiment of charity and empathy. He made sure that no stone was left unturned before he left to his glorified state.
The next time you feel sad from watching the news, from wars or accidents…or even if now, you’re experience depression or mental anguish, never forget who has felt it all, and who is always on stand-by to help.
-Jarom
NO ATTACHMENT IS FREEDOM 