“The blessed in Heaven possess an immediate intuitive knowledge of the Divine Essence.”

I have had some scrapes in my life – one of the worst being pancreatitis.
It was such intense pain as is unutterably ugly. A pain that makes one feel their body will crumble and return to dust, because humans were ill designed to take such suffering.

However, the most painful thing I have ever experienced is to be misunderstood. This pain is unable to be relieved through pills or injections, like physical trauma, yet makes one feel as though they are about to rupture with dammed up frustration. This is the pain of knowing that no matter what one says, one's words will be twisted and misconstrued and have their meanings violated. To go about daily misunderstood is to go about wholly alone.

Who, then, was the most misunderstood person of all history? Jesus Christ, the only Son of God. Jesus became fully human while retaining his fully divine nature. The creator of every person on the earth and sustainer of all life, became flesh and blood. What then does the life that He sustains give to Him in reply? Death on a cross. He is completely and utterly misunderstood. Slaughtered by those He breathed life to, even His closest friends run away. He is left almost entirely alone, and certainly left entirely misunderstood.

I never fully misunderstand another human. There is always some touch or scrap of understanding because we are human – that bond unites us. However, because Jesus was also fully divine, he was the only human to be fully misunderstood. No one on this earth grasps the mystery of God. We toil in our daily labor and vainly use His name when we are cut off in traffic, or stub our toes. We forget in our drudgery that by that name we use to curse, our very life was given to us. Jesus is not merely some guy, He is Lord. When one calls Him merely a good teacher, the misunderstanding is greater than if you or I were to be mistaken for a stone. Pause your thoughts on the frustration He must feel to be so completely misunderstood by His children.

That pain from being misunderstood must at some point need relax. If I were in Heaven and knew I was causing my God and savior pain for all eternity, I would be frustrated beyond belief. I would rather die than cause my wife pain – how much more so for my God?

Therefore, in Heaven, the last dividing walls between God and man are crushed. If I am so blessed as to see God's face in Heaven, I will receive understanding of who God is. No longer will I go about misunderstanding God! In Heaven, His essence will be revealed so that I might love Him for who He is, rather than go about for eternity second guessing His divine plan or doubting His love for me.

In Heaven, I will know to my deepest marrow and innermost veins the Divine Essence. My knowledge of God will no longer be based upon my faulty feelings or loose logic, but based instead upon the full union I will have with Him. At last the tension of misunderstanding will relax, and the Sabbath rest will being.

Further Reading: Jesus denied by Peter (the Gospel according to John, 18).