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The Topic of David Jeremiah Devotional for today 19th December 2024 is “Tempted and Tested”
SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Recommended Reading: Hebrews 2:17-18
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David Jeremiah Daily Devotional for Today 19th December 2024
Empathize and sympathize are two English words that are sometimes confused. While the Greek word for sympathy occurs in the Greek New Testament twice (Hebrews 4:15; 10:34), the Greek word for empathy does not. In modern terms, sympathize means “to have pity or sorrow towards another,” while empathize means “to understand and share in the feelings of another.” The meaning of Greek sympathize is more like the meaning of our modern empathize: to suffer with.
One of the benefits of Immanuel—“God with us” as a fellow human—is Christ’s ability to identify with our sufferings, to sympathize with us. “Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested” (Hebrews 2:18, NLT). He had to “be made in every respect like us…so that he could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God” (Hebrews 2:17, NLT). Jesus experienced every pain we experience, “yet without sin.”
When you are tempted or tested, you are not alone. God is with you; He has felt what you are feeling.
One Son God hath without sin, but none without sorrow.
John Trapp
Read-Thru-the-Bible: Hebrews 9 – 10
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Turning Point With God is a Daily Devotional Written by David Jeremiah. He is the Pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church. A church with a vision to serve God and humanity with a strong belief that the church should be a real place, a place that is warm and relevant to the lives of real people in normal everyday situations.
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