It was just a "God-Thing..." :-)

"...Jesus knows our loneliness, our anxiety, our frustration, our weaknesses, and even our temptations. But the good news is that in Hebrews 4:15 it says "He did not sin." He's not just another Adam. He passed the test. Because of that, He is our savior and our redeemer. You say "What does it matter if he can empathize with us? He didn't sin! What does it matter??" Here's why: In verse 16 it says "Let us then approach the throne of God with confidence." With. Confidence. When we know that when we come to Jesus and say "I am weak and broken, and I am tempted to do these things I hate to do and it's overwhelming..." We don't have to be embarrassed when we stand before God. We can come to Him and say "You. Know. I'm not saying these things to a God who is far removed. You. Know. You were weak like I am; you faced the same weaknesses and temptations. You know." So we can approach the throne of grace with our sin and things that make us feel shame about ourselves. With the things in our hearts that bring us down and hurt us to even think about! We can approach the throne of grave with confidence. Because we have a high priest who can empathize with us. Who can say "I know your weaknesses and it's okay." And what do we get when we approach the throne with confidence? Continuing in verse 16 "....approach the throne of grace so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need" So when we come to God with confidence and we say "I am weak. I am broken. I am messed up and I am hurting..." Jesus is saying "It's Okay!" He doesn't ridicule you, he doesn't judge you, he doesn't point to you and say "I'm very disappointed in you." It says we find mercy and grace in our time of need. Jesus said to the Pharisees once that "...the healthy don't need a doctor. I came for the sick." Jesus isn't waiting for you to clean up your act. He isn't waiting for you to get a handle on your alcoholism. He isn't waiting for you to fix your marriage. He isn't waiting for you to be a better husband, wife, mother, father, sister, brother. He isn't waiting for you to be employee of the month. Or to get out of debt. Or stop gambling. He isn't waiting for that..." -Grant Nixon

We used to have a service at our church on Saturday nights called "Saturday Night Service." It's goal was to get people who couldn't necessarily come to church on Sunday mornings for whatever reason to maybe come on a Saturday night. I really liked it! We always had Chick-fil-a in the lobby before it started, the worship band was awesome, and overall it was just always a highlight of my week! We don't have the Saturday Night Services anymore, but I still have a few of the sermons from it in my Itunes.
Once upon a time I lost pretty much ALL of my music, podcasts, videos, etc in iTunes because my computer crashed. There was one particular sermon I listened to quite a few times but I lost it when my computer crashed. For whatever reason I typed this one section of the sermon, printed it out, and put it in a folder in my bedroom. I put that folder in a box, the box got shoved in the top corner of my closet, I haven't seen the folder in a long time, forgot about it...you get the idea. Recently I deep cleaned my room for the first time in a while and I came across this little excerpt that I had so neatly typed up. I just think that it's really neat how God does things like that!