{"id":38163,"date":"2025-11-16T22:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38163"},"modified":"2025-11-11T18:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:52:03","slug":"251117-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251117-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Knows How You Feel"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Remember when you sought a night\u2019s rest and got a colicky baby? Remember when you sought to catch up at the office and got even further behind? You can add to the list of interruptions sorrow, excitement, and bedlam. Sound familiar? Take comfort\u2014it happened to Jesus too.<\/p>\n

You may have trouble believing that. You probably believe Jesus knows what it means to endure heavy-duty tragedies. You\u2019re no doubt convinced Jesus is acquainted with sorrow and has wrestled with fear. Most people accept that.<\/p>\n

But can God relate to the hassles and headaches of my life? Of your life? For some reason this is harder to believe. Jesus knows how you feel. His eyes have grown weary. His heart has grown heavy. He has had to climb out of bed with a sore throat. He has been kept awake late and gotten up early.<\/p>\n

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Remember when you sought a night\u2019s rest and got a colicky baby? Remember when you sought to catch up at the office and got even further behind? You can add to the list of interruptions sorrow, excitement, and bedlam. Sound familiar? Take comfort\u2014it happened to Jesus too.<\/p>\n

You may have trouble believing that. You probably believe Jesus knows what it means to endure heavy-duty tragedies. You\u2019re no doubt convinced Jesus is acquainted with sorrow and has wrestled with fear. Most people accept that.\u00a0But can God relate to the hassles and headaches of my life? Of your life? For some reason this is harder to believe. Jesus knows how you feel. His eyes have grown weary. His heart has grown heavy. He has had to climb out of bed with a sore throat. He has been kept awake late and gotten up early. Jesus knows how you feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38166,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38163\/revisions\/38166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}