They Don't Understand Me!!!

Sometimes it gets frustrating to live the Christian life. At times it feels as if because Jesus was the perfect man, that he didn't experience, or go through what we ourselves have.
It seems as though we can never achieve that perfection; that 'Holiness' God demands we have ( NIV 1 Peter 1:15-16: "But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”").

But the truth is, our Lord Jesus felt everything that we have. Not only was he fully God, but also fully human. Take a look at Isaiah 53. Beginning in verses 2&3:

"He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not."
And in verses 7-9:
"He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
And who can speak of his descendants?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was stricken.
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth."

He has felt rejection, oppression and judgement. He was despised, and described as a 'man of sorrows'.
He has experienced what we have. I cannot put it any better than Josh Mcdowell put it in his book "Beyond Belief to Convictions." Here is a part of his book:

"One of the phrases often used by young people is, "They don't understand me." We all long for someone to understand and identify with us, especially when life seems hard or confusing or unfair.

Christ wants us to know that he understands everything we have ever endured - and more. The Incarnate One, Jesus Christ, experienced the ups and downs of life as a human baby, child, teenager, and man. He suffered embarrassment, humiliation, and rejection. As God, Christ understood his creation perfectly but by becoming a human being, Jesus let us know how intimately and completely he understands us-- and all we have experienced.
Yes, God loved us and sent his Son in the form of a human being to die for us so we can have a relationship with him. We all know that. But many of us focus so exclusively on that central truth that we miss the full significance of how deep he wants that relationship to be.
Because Christ took on human form, we can know that he truly understands our weaknesses and temptations. He wants you - and your kids- to know that he identifies with your feelings of rejection when your child is not chosen for the basketball team or when you're overlooked for a job promotion. He understands how it feels to be teased cruelly by classmates or shunned by associates or 'friends'. He can identify with what it feels like to be betrayed by a girlfriend or boyfriend, a coworker, or a spouse.
Think of it: He is the all-sufficient Lord, yet he became as dependent as you were when you were a baby. He was the one who fashioned the human body, yet like you he had to learn to walk. He was the preexistent Word, yet he had to learn to speak, just as you did. He created clouds and rivers and lakes, yet he got thirsty. He endured the taunts of those who knew only part of his family's story. He must have felt the almost unbearable weight of grief when his earthly father, Joseph, died. He suffered not only the physical torture of the cross as he died for you but also the anguish of being rejected, humiliated, denied, abandoned, and even betrayed by his closest friends. Why did he willingly go through all that?

Because he wanted you to know that he understands...."