Hi, and thanks for joining us for today's encouragement from the Our Daily Bread Devotional.

I'm Kirsten Holmberg, and I titled our reading, Like Us, For Us.

Derek noticed his son didn't want to take off his shirt to swim and realized it was because

he was self-conscious about a birth mark that covers parts of his chest, belly, and left arm.

Determined to help his son, Derek underwent a lengthy and painful tattooing process to create an identical mark on his own body.

Derek's love for his son reflects God's love for his sons and daughters.

Because we, his children, have flesh and blood, Jesus became like us and took on a human

form and shared in our humanity to free us from the power of death.

He had to be made like us, fully human in every way, to make things right with God for us.

Derek wanted to help his son overcome his self-consciousness, and so he made himself like him.

Jesus helped us overcome a far greater problem, slavery to death. He overcame it for us by making

himself like us, bearing the consequence of our sin by dying in our place.

Jesus' willingness to share in our humanity not only secured our right relationship with God,

but enables us to trust him in our moments of struggle.

When we face temptation and hardship, we can lean on him for strength and support because he is able to help. Like a loving

father, he understands and cares. Today's Our Daily Read Devotional Scripture reading

is from Hebrews, Chapter 2, verses 10 through 18. in bringing many sons and daughters to glory it was

fitting that God for whom and through whom everything exists should make the pioneer of their

salvation perfect through what he suffered both the one who makes people holy and those who are

made holy are of the same family.

So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters. He says, I will declare your name to my

brothers and sisters in the assembly. I will sing your praises. And again, I will put my trust in him.

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