Heb 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Heb 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Heb 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him
Jesus- in the days of his flesh offered up prayers and supplication with STRONG CRYING and TEARS unto him that was able to save him from death and was heard in that he feared.
Think about that for a moment. We have this picture of Jesus as being God on earth and not subject to the need for strong crying and tears. If Jesus cried and not just a little bit, but really, really cried and He knew the Father in a way that we don't how much more should we be crying, strong crying to God. God was a reality to Jesus in a way that He isn't to a lot of us, most of us. God is a figure that is surreal and fantasy, unseen and therefore regulated to a special realm in an abstract way. Do we make God pure reality for us, for our lives? Is God real to us? It's easy to say yes He is, and maybe that's the truth. I believe in God, I believe He loves me and wants me to be His. I believe God sent His Son Jesus to die for me so that I might live through the righteousness of Jesus. I do believe but is my life reflective of a living God? I want it to be. Jesus, God's Son came to earth and offered up His prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears. The Son of God would cry as He prayed and sought God's guidance and help. God heard Him, God heard His Son and not just because He was His Son but because He had reverence towards Him. Jesus gave God the respect due Him, so why do we think we can do any less? Jesus, God's Son learned obedience by the things he suffered. Another shocker? It can be when we think that Jesus had to learn obedience through suffering. Jesus knows everything we've gone through and will go through, Jesus became flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus suffered temptation as we do. Jesus learned obedience through suffering and WE need to learn obedience through suffering. When we suffer we have the choice to learn or not to learn from our suffering. We will suffer through life's many heartaches and pains and we can succumb to them and learn nothing, or we can learn obedience. Jesus being made perfect became the author of eternal salvation unto all that obey him. By the grace of God may we learn obedience through our sufferings and may we realize that Jesus cried, Jesus reverenced His Father, Jesus learned obedienced through suffering and through Jesus' perfection we can find eternal salvation and only in Him is it found.
By the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior now and forever.
Amen.
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