Deuteronomy 19:15-17

When I read these verses, I realized a new cool thing about Jesus that I don't think I really grasped before:  God came as a human being just like us because He knew we couldn't handle it if He came as His awesome spirit self.  When He appeared to the Israelites at Mt. Horeb, they were terrified of His voice and His presence in the fire, and they begged him NOT to speak to them anymore!  How many times have I begged God to do just the opposite?  I've sometimes thought, "Why doesn't God show Himself to me, talk to me personally?  Is He too busy, or does He just not care?"  But He knows that His awesome voice is so terrifying to us that we wouldn't even be able to listen, so He came to live among us as one of us.