Jesus our High Priest........Jesus.  He did so much.  He endured so much.  All for us. We were the joy set before Him. We are what enabled Him to endure such contradictions of sinners against himself..we are what enabled  him to ignore the beating, the reviling, and the horrible shame that he despised.  We did that.  We are His joy.

Hebrews 5:7   He shrank from the horrors of being separated from the bright presence of the Father.
Amplified       I thought about that verse this morning.  There is a lot in that verse.  There are horrors                          that exist outside of the bright presence of the Father.  The bright presence of the Father illuminates.  It is His will made known to us.  Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him.  Jesus expressed the will of the Father.  He is the expressed image of the Father.  Emmanuel, God with us.  When Jesus came among the people, there was no longer a separation from the bright presence of the Father.  The horrors of sin could not exist in His presence.  How grievous for Jesus to walk this earth in the flesh, being limited by the flesh to bring the brightness of God to the horrors of a creation experiencing separation from a loving Father's brightness.
   We, the joy set before Him  He saw us with access into the Holy of Holies BY HIS BLOOD.  He saw us no longer having to be separated from the brightness of His presence.
        There is another part of that verse that I believe we need to  take a serious look at.  The amplified reads this way;  IN the days of His flesh, Jesus offered up definite special petitions (for that which He not only wanted but needed) and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him who was always able to save Him out from death, and He was heard because of His reverence toward God ( His Godly fear, piety, in that He shrank from the horrors of separation from the bright presence of the Father)
  What I needed to ask myself was, is that how I am? And for the Father to create that same spirit in me, that I do not want to be outside of His will and in the horrors of what that would create, recognizing that to be there would truly be in the presence of horrors.

Jesus paid the price for us to live in the brightness of God's presence ALWAYS!

Bonnie