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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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SHOW NOTES
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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