It’s hard to believe in someone you’ve never seen. Faith can feel like a long-distance relationship—trusting someone who isn’t physically beside you. Maybe that’s why obedience sometimes feels optional, like checking a box without a red asterisk. You hear about trusting God, but if we’ve never seen what trust looks like, it’s hard to live it out.

Many of us know that tension. If you’ve never seen a healthy dad, it’s hard to be one. If you’ve never experienced the fruit of obedience, it can feel like oppression instead of freedom. But Hebrews reminds us that God didn’t stay distant, He came close. Jesus didn’t just appear as a spirit, He showed up in humanity.

From the beginning, God’s plan was that humanity would reflect His image (Genesis 1:27). He created us to walk in glory, honor, and authority. Yet sin cracked that reflection. We lost sight of who we were meant to be and started striving to prove our worth. Our control turned into selfishness, and our identity got buried beneath shame.

That’s why Jesus became human. Hebrews 2:9 says, “We do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.”

Jesus entered the broken system of sin and let it break Him.

He took on the full weight of our pain, our fear, and our disobedience and conquered them all. He became what we could never be on our own: the perfect reflection of God’s heart. Through His humanity, He restored the relationship between a holy God and a broken people.

Now, there’s no more middleman. No priest, no ritual, no repeated sacrifices. Jesus became the better man, the better priest, the better sacrifice, and the better Savior. Because of Him, you have full access to God. You can live free from guilt, no longer enslaved by fear or stuck in a loop of “trying harder.”

Jesus became human so you could know what freedom really looks like. To live whole, restored, and confident that your life reflects His glory again.