Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Patrick Miller. If you like sports or if you just watched the Super Bowl

there's a good chance that you've seen a He Gets Us ad. If you haven't seen one

you can go look one up on YouTube but let me give you a brief

description the ads are all pretty similar they show striking black and white

images of people going through everyday life and a lot of different

situations usually there's some calm music everyday life and a lot of different situations.

Usually there's some calm music or not calm music running behind it

and sometimes there's a little monologue to explain what's happening,

but at the end, they conclude with a statement about Jesus

and say, he gets us.

One of my favorite ones, it doesn't really have a monologue, it just shows people struggling to make it in life.

People who don't have enough money, they're struggling to find a place to live. They can't pay off their

bills. And at the end of it, it says, Jesus struggled to make ends meet. He gets us. And of course,

it's a true statement. Jesus lived in a time when most people lived on a subsistence basis.

In other words, they rarely had enough money or resources

to pay for the food they needed to eat every single day.

In fact, back in those days, people would go usually about 60 days a year

hungry. And Jesus, he wasn't a wealthy man, he was a construction worker, and it's not hard to

imagine that he also struggled to make ends meet, not just to pay for his own food, but for his mother and his siblings.

And so maybe there's a real sense in which, yes, if you struggle to make ends meat,

Jesus gets it. He experienced the exact same thing. But what I want to talk

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