5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: Jesus Understands Our Humanity | 5 Minutes with Jesus | March 17, 2026
- Jesus is the hope
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- For every man, woman, and child on this planet.
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- If you're strong or weak,
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- You're rich or poor.
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- If you're happy or sad, jesus is your hope.
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- Not in a or come to jesus and everything will be all right
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- Bumper sticker way, but not in the radical truth
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- That jesus came to us to make everything all right eternally.
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- There will be no doubt
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- That we'll all lose some battles along the way.
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- You know that to be true in your own life.
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- But because of what jesus has done for us,
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- Every single one who places their trust in him
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- Will win
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- In bigger ways than we can even begin to imagine right now.
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- Knowing jesus changes everything
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- My first trip to israel had a huge impact on me.
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- I think just walking where jesus walked.
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- Help me understand
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- A little
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- Bit about what his life on this earth must have looked like.
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- Like, for example, i realized how tired
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- He must have been at times.
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- I mean, he didn't have a car to get from one place to another,
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- Or a nice coffee shop to stop in for some refreshment.
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- Apart from his journey into jerusalem on a donkey
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- And what we call palm sunday, he walked everywhere.
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- And some people and places received him well
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- And others didn't.
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- It just give me
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- A fresh understanding of how christ is portrayed
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- In hebrews as the perfect high priest who understands
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- Everything that you and i are walking through.
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- In hebrews chapter four, verse 14, we read this.
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- So then, since we have a great high priest
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- Who has entered heaven, jesus the son of god,
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- Let us hold firmly to what we believe.
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- This high priest of ours understands our weaknesses, but
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- He faced all the same testings we do.
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- Yet he did not sin.
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- So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious god.
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- There we will receive his mercy,
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- And we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
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- He faced
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- All the same testings or temptations as we do.
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- And yet he never sinned.
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- He was very familiar with all the things
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- That are tough for us, but without sinning.
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- I think one of the hardest things about life
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- Is that so often
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- We feel as if no one understands what we're going through,
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- Or we feel that we are the only one who finds herself
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- And this place that we're in right now.
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- Like, do you ever come home from work just exhausted
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- And all you want to do is collapse in bed?
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- Jesus understands that.
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- Or have you ever felt misunderstood or even worse,
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- Betrayed by someone?
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- Totally by someone you love?
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- Jesus understands that.
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- Have you ever experienced pain that just won't go away?
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- You know, for some of you who deal with chronic pain
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- And you say nobody really gets it, jesus understands that.
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- And do you ever feel alone?
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- I promise you, jesus understands that
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- There is nothing that you are walking through right now
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- That is unfamiliar to the lord, and you're invited
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- To come boldly to the throne and ask for help.
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- I am convinced that
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- Christ is our hope no matter what happens in this world.
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- In peter's first letter he wrote this, so be truly glad.
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- There is wonderful joy ahead,
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- Even though you must endure many trials for a little while.
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- These trials will show that your faith is genuine.
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- It's being tested as far tests and purifies gold,
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- Though your faith is far more precious than mere gold.
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- So when your faith remains strong through many trials,
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- It will bring you much praise and glory and honor.
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- On the day when jesus christ is revealed to the whole world,
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- Jesus is the hope for every man,
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- Woman, and child on this planet.
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- If you're strong or weak,
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- You're rich or poor.
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- If you're happy or sad, jesus is your hope.
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- Not in a or come to jesus and everything will be all right
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- Bumper sticker way, but not in the radical truth
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- That jesus came to us to make everything all right eternally.
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- There will be no doubt
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- That we'll all lose some battles along the way.
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- You know that to be true in your own life.
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- But because of what jesus has done for us,
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- Every single one who places their trust in him
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- Will win
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- In bigger ways than we can even begin to imagine right now.
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- Knowing jesus changes everything was quite
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- Something for a home one day, and we understand
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- The whole amazing redemptive story
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- When every single piece is finally placed in the puzzle
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- And all will fall and worship christ.
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- He came for one purpose.
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- He came to pay the price for sin,
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- To give us a way back home to god our father.
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- He left the glory of heaven to be born to dirt poor parents.
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- According to the law of moses, a firstborn boy
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- Had to be brought to the temple
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- In jerusalem when he was 40 days old and presented to the lord.
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- A sacrifice was brought so that the mother
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- Could be declared ceremonially clean.
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- Wealthy parents brought a lamb as a sacrifice,
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- But there was a provision in the law
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- For those who couldn't afford the lamb.
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- We read,
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- And if she cannot afford the lamb, then she should take
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- Two turtledoves or two pigeons.
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- So that's what mary did that day.
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- To anyone who saw her approach the temple,
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- It would have appeared
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- That a poor young girl was bringing two turtledoves.
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- What they wouldn't understand
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- Was she was carrying the lamb of god.
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- Whatever you're facing right now, talk to him about it.
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- You're not alone.
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- And jesus understands what you're going through.
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- Prayer for you.
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- Lord, thank you that you
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- Faced everything that we face on this earth.
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- And yet you did not send that you understand what loneliness,
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- What heartache, what betrayal, what pain is suffering.
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- You understand it all.
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- And you are our sympathetic high priest.
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- Thank you that we can come to you
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- With everything that's going on.
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- And tell you the truth.
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- So amazing to me that those who saw mary that day
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- Thought she was just carrying a couple of little birds.
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- They didn't understand she was carrying
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- The hope of the whole world.
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- Thank you. in jesus name. amen.
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