God taking on human form in Jesus not only comforts us that God understands how we feel, it also enables us to understand what God is like.
If you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus as embraces lepers (literally the "untouchables" in their culture); look at Jesus as he heals the sick and raises the dead; look at Jesus as he stands up for women and children; look at Jesus as he forgives all who come to him; look at Jesus as he hangs out and parties with the low life of first century Israel; look at Jesus as he calls all people to himself saying that he is the way, the truth and the life; look at Jesus as he reaches out to the judgemental religious leaders of his day and, after they have rejected him, calls them out; look at Jesus as he transforms the lives of those who follow him, changing people who were sworn enemies to brothers who laid down their lives for each other and stubborn fisherman into servant leaders who changed the world; look at Jesus as he reveals the most profound moral teaching ever heard; look at Jesus as he storms into the Temple and drives out hundreds of predatory merchants; look at Jesus as he agonizes in the Garden of Gethsemane, voluntarily endures torture and riducule, and then opens his arms wide to all humanity as he dies a sacrificial death on the cross for all of us.
If you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus.
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