Human-ness and God-ness

While Jesus is our Lord and Savior, no question about it, how often do we consider that He dealt with human emotions. We marvel (and rightly so) at the fact that he fed the 5,000. But He had drawn away at the news that His cousin, John the Baptist, had been murdered. The crowd followed Him.

I mean, this is his cousin. I would be in mourning if my cousin died at a young age. Yet Jesus, is a way only He could do, puts that aside to meet the needs of the people. It says he was struck with compassion and healed their sick. It wasn't about Him. In the midst of his human-ness, we see His goodness. His God-ness.

He was always aware that it wasn't about what His flesh wanted to do. His flesh wanted to mourn. To grieve. But He knew that His cousin was in a better place. But perhaps He missed the physical presence of John.

But it WAS about what Him. It was about how He was the light to the world. He was the one that was supposed to heal the sick, to bring glory to the Father. To feed those who were hungry. He put his human-ness aside so that his God-ness could shine through.

I don't know if I could look at the feeding of the 5,000 the same again.