Jesus was without sin, but not without suffering, not only on the cross but during the rest of His life. All this matured Him. It wasn’t that He was deficient, but it was God’s design for Him to feel the effects of living in the fallen world, and for Him to rise above it in His person and what He accomplished. This was His growing pains.

Have you heard of children having growing pains?

There was a time when doctors thought the pains came from the body of children growing, developing, although this is no longer believed.

I’ve heard the phrase used by adults to describe a child’s pain for which there was no explanation.

For us as Christians, growing pains are not imaginary but very real; not in our physical development, but our spiritual development.

And it’s not unlike some of what Jesus experienced when He was on earth.

“In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to Him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered” Hebrews 5:7,8.

“For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering” Hebrews 2:10.

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