Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him... - ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭5‬:‭8-9‬ ‭NIV‬‬

What does it mean that Jesus "learned obedience?" Was there a point when he was disobedient?

Prior to becoming a human, Jesus was fully God and in perfect unity with the Father. But he could not go right from heaven to the cross. In order to be our perfect sacrifice, he had to endure a human life experiencing obedience every step of the way - through temptation and pain and suffering.

Perhaps we could say he was always perfect as God, but that perfection had to be tested as a human, especially when he underwent the suffering of his last 24 hours. 

You and I rarely choose to endure suffering, and when it comes upon us we often have no control over when it ends. The most control we have is over our attitudes and perpsectives in the midst of it. 

But Jesus, being fully God, could have chosen to end his sufferig at any point; he could have called down legions of angels when he was arrested; he could have taken himself off the cross; he could have pulled out all his God power -- but he didn't.

He stayed.

He stayed in the suffering in order to be perfectly obedient to His Father's good plan.

And he did it so that he could be "the source of eternal salvation" (v. 9) for us all. 

What a marvelous love!