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“The two words people need to hear the most when they’re hurting are not you should but me too.”

A thought by Steven Furtick, (2016-03-01) from his book, (UN)Qualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things (p. 113). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title of the book to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

But it is so much easier to say you should, isn’t it?  That makes us feel so much better.  I know that is easier for me too.  I am so ready with the instruction not the confession.

But Steven says, “There is something about weakness that opens hearts. It disarms the defensive. It softens the suspicious. It endears the indifferent. It shows people that we aren’t to be feared or revered. We are ‘one of them,’ and as such, we are welcome to speak into their lives.”

He goes on, “Case in point: Jesus. He made his grand entrance into the human race as a baby. That says a lot right there. Human infants are about the most helpless creatures on the planet. On top of that his mom was an unwed teenager. His dad was a working-class dude. They were from Nazareth, a backwater town that was known for being the butt of jokes. Jesus’s upbringing could not have been further from what royalty— much less divinity— would have expected. Then, after thirty years of unrecorded humanity, he started his ministry, which lasted only three and a half years. If you do the math, more than 85 percent of his life was spent in obscurity.”

Hebrews 4: 15– 16 says, “We do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are— yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”

Steven says, “In other words, while Jesus’s righteousness saves us, his humanity is what draws us near to him. That’s what bridges the gap between God and man. The person of Jesus is God’s resounding ‘Me too!’”


Don’t you think he is a good example for us to follow?

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