July 2025 - Mixed Emotions

“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”

Matthew 24:36 NIV

Mixed Emotions

I recently had a very interesting conversation about how even Jesus doesn’t know the hour and time of His return. It wasn’t a new idea, as scripture makes it clear that no one knows the hour or the day (Matthew 24:36), but it did make me wonder about the different emotions that Jesus may be experiencing as He joins us in waiting for His return. I understand that Jesus trusts the Father explicitly, but one can still trust someone and experience different feelings. Is Jesus bored and ready to be given the green light? Is He pleading on our behalf? Is He floating down a river of peace, totally relaxed and at ease? Maybe it's like me some days, and He experiences all those feelings within hours of each other.

One of the more difficult things about wrapping my head around being One with Him is realizing that if I am one with Him, He is one with me. He not only knows my thoughts and emotions, but He also understands and experiences them. It brings me a great deal of comfort to know that even Jesus Himself doesn’t know the whole plan, and yet He stands with me in trusting the Father. It makes me feel connected and not left on my own to muster up some faith as I watch world events twist and turn. Jesus knows how to walk through these emotions in love, truth, and freedom, which means together, WE can walk through them in love, truth, and freedom!