Just a fraction

I remember so many people telling me that Jesus Christ understands all of our pain because He became human and lived in this sinful world. A friend questioned me recently, though, asking that if He experienced all our pain why He didn't experience heartbreak.

What I ask is this: What if we experience human heartbreak as merely a symbol, a fraction, of His heartbreak?

I think the real heartbreak is something that I, as a sinful human being, cannot fully grasp because Jesus Christ endured the highest level of suffering.

Kenosis is the concept that Christ emptied himself, giving up closeness with the Father in order to take on the nature of a servant. Phil. 2:7-8 "He made himself nothing by taking on the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death--even death on a cross" He gave up this closeness with the Father in order to save us, in His entire divinity, in the process taking on the complete nature of a servant. Christ does understand our heartbreak because He emptied Himself in order to experience it and through His obedience, He experienced a heartbreak on a much larger scale than we can humanly understand: death on a cross due to the rejection from creation to Creator.