JESUS KNOWS
Nobody knows how it feels to be you. Nobody carries your thoughts or has lived your life in the same order and manner as you have. No one has felt every rise and fall of your heart the way you have. Sometimes even we can’t make sense of our own story — how the pieces fit, how the chapters blend, how the tears and laughter somehow belong to the same book. But it all makes perfect sense to God.
We often wish others could walk a mile in our shoes, just to understand. Elvis sang it once, though the saying goes back to an old proverb about walking a mile in another man’s moccasins. Yet the truth remains — no one has walked your road but you. And still, there is One who understands it better than you do yourself. Christ has walked the loneliest road. He has felt the weight of every burden and the ache of every heart. Our High Priest knows how it feels down here (Hebrews 4:15).
Sometimes I’ve thought how interesting it would be if I could hand my mind to someone else and let them live with it for a while — just to see if they could do any better with it than I have. Believe me, they wouldn’t want to find out. There are memories that weigh heavy, temptations and mental struggles and failures that are uniquely mine, thoughts that run deep, and battles that few ever see. Yet I’m sure you’ve felt the same about your own mind. We each carry a world inside our heads that no one else can fully enter. And that’s why I’m so thankful that Christ understands even the corners of my mind that confuse me. He knows what it feels like to be me — and He knows what it feels like to be you. “You understand my thoughts from afar” (Psalm 139:2).
So, when no one understands, He does. When even your own heart feels like a mystery, He knows. “You direct my path and my lying down, and You are acquainted with all my ways” (Psalm 139:3). You are you — wonderfully and fearfully made (Psalm 139:14) — and God does not make mistakes. Your life may not make sense to anyone else, but it is a masterpiece in progress under the hand of the Master Artist.
“The Lord knows them that are His. He never mistakes His own, and He never forgets them.” So live for an audience of One. Keep your thoughts fixed on Jesus, for He knows you fully, loves you completely, and walks every unseen mile beside you.
Lord Jesus, thank You for knowing me when I don’t even understand myself. When my thoughts are tangled and my path feels unclear, remind me that You see every step and understand every sigh. Help me to rest in the comfort of Your knowledge and not in the opinions of others. Teach me to live for You alone — to walk humbly, to trust deeply, and to love faithfully. You are my peace in confusion, my friend in solitude, and my Savior in every season. Amen.
Bryan Dewayne Dunaway
