He is human
I'm sure many have already heard the statement "The Word became flesh". It's been said so much we've often treated it flippantly. But when you ponder this, you then ask: What does it mean to say God became man?
Reading to the book of Matthew, we come across the story of John the Baptist's death. It's a rather sad story, he was beheaded because of a stupid promise Herod made. The scene that saddens me even more is when Jesus is told the news. Usually we have this image of Jesus as an uptight, almost stoic emotionless "man". But here, I was struck by what happened after he was told:
And his disciples came and took away the corpse and buried it, and went and told Jesus. And, hearing this, Jesus withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself; and the crowds, hearing of this, followed him on foot from the cities. And on disembarking he saw a large crowd, and he was moved inwardly with compassion for them and healed the ill among them.
(Matt 14:12-14)
I can imagine Jesus hearing that his cousin, his blood, his friend, whom he must have loved so much, and grown up with, was dead, and not just a natural death; beheaded, murdered by a despot. He couldn't even see his body, he was just told. I can't imagine the pain. Matthew doesn't record Jesus crying, but I imagine either he did, or at least he would have been distraught, so much that Matthew does record that he withdrew to a deserted place.
That is not a good time for crowds to be following you, placing all their demands on you, you need time to grieve. But he doesn't send them away, he heals their sick. I don't know if I have such strength. When we say God suffered pain in Christ, it's not something to just agree to, we read it in the very pages that record his rather short natural life.
He wasn't successful by any earthly standard, his own cousin was beheaded, it is even a tradition to note that his father Joseph's sudden absence from the narrative is due to his untimely death. He is a man acquainted with grief, he would follow his cousin to the grave not too many years or months later, this is the life the God-man chose for our sake.