Even now my witness is in heaven.
My advocate is there on high. My friends scorn me,
but I pour out my tears to God. Job 16:19, 20

     There are times in this life when no other human being can truly understand what we are going through.

Well meaning people can put an arm around us and whisper “I know how you feel. I’ve been there.”

Honestly, though, I have come to understand that each of our trials is different. No one experiences exactly the same emotions even if they go through the same set of circumstances. Every divorce, every bout with cancer, every death of a loved one is different because every one of us is different. We are as unique in our pain as we are in our personhood. In the end that means no one can fully know what we are going through. No one can fully sympathize. No one can jump inside our minds and psychically experience our emotions with us. We are alone in our pain. EXCEPT FOR GOD!

You see Jesus can read minds. He alone in all the universe fully connects with us in our difficulty. He is witness to our deepest and most private pains. He is God who can be WITH us like nobody else can be with us. He is not just beside us. He is in us and GOD KNOWS.

Not only does God know,  He cares. He is our advocate. He is on our side. The Bible goes so far as to say it this way, “Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.” Rom. 8:34 NLT

God knows your heartache even when you feel nobody else “gets it.”

Don’t give up. Trust that the judge of all the Earth will do right by you!