¹⁴ Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to our confession. ¹⁵ For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 6:14-15 CSB)

It is easy to imagine the gulf between our situation and God to be vast. To look upon God in a way that dehumanizes him and puts him far from us, staring down upon us as pathetic creatures.

But God’s love was so vast that he sent His son down to us to live a human life, experience human suffering and die a horrible human death. In essence being three in one, the Father, Son and Spirit experienced what it is to be human.

He did this so that he would provide a path for our salvation but too, to provide context for his sympathy. Not so much for him, as he created all human emotion so he well understands it. But so that we might experience a relationship with Christ who lived and died for us, with us.

This is almost too much to grasp when we really think about it. We have a high priest who is able to sympathize with our weakness and our temptation. For while God understands these emotions he does so from a place not only of creation but of experience. And while we cannot really understand his vast knowledge, we can easily accept and understand the smallness we feel in our weakness.

And so to can God.