Humility and Empathy
Humility leads to Empathy — life is hard and it humbles us. That humility helps us empathize with others. Christ became human and empathizes with us.
“For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.”
Shepherd’s Note
Hebrews says Christ empathizes with our weaknesses because He was tempted in every way, yet without sin, which means His humility was not theoretical. He became human, and humanity humbled Him in all the ordinary ways, hunger, weariness, misunderstanding, grief. The road this entry traces runs both directions. Life humbles us, and humbled people learn to empathize, because they know from inside what hard feels like. And before any of us learned it, Christ walked it first, so no one who comes to Him is met by a stranger to suffering.
This post is part of a series about my beach encounters with GOD. Read from the Beginning >>