Job once asked God, “Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees?” (Job 10:4). In other words, Job was challenging God’s ability to understand what it is like to be human. But Job’s question is no longer valid because God, through Jesus, has experienced life as a human. That is why Jesus was called “Immanuel,” which means “God with us” (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23).
But how could deity fully appreciate life in the confines of humanity? Paul explained what it took for Jesus to see like us when he wrote in Philippians 2:6-7 that although Jesus “was in the form of God, [He] did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.”