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“Jesus loved us too much to leave us alone.”

A thought by Max Lucado (2011-05-02) from his book, Cure for the Common Life (p. 65). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

Are you someone who hurts because you are lonely?

Max says, “Lonely people fight feelings of insignificance. What do you do with such thoughts? No one knows me. No one’s near me. No one needs me. How do you cope with such cries for significance? Some stay busy; others stay drunk. Some buy pets; others buy lovers. Some seek therapy. And a few seek God.”

He continues, “He invites us all to. God’s treatment for insignificance won’t lead you to a bar or dating service, a spouse or social club. God’s ultimate cure for the common life takes you to a manger. The babe of Bethlehem. Immanuel. Remember the promise of the angel? ‘Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,’ which is translated, ‘God with us.’ (Matt. 1:23).”

He goes on, “For thousands of years, God gave us his voice. Prior to Bethlehem, he gave his messengers, his teachers, his words. But in the manger, God gave us himself. Many people have trouble with such a teaching. Islam sees God as one who sends others. He sends angels, prophets, books, but God is too holy to come to us himself. For God to touch the earth would be called a ‘shirk.’ People who claim that God has touched the earth shirk God’s holiness; they make him gross. They blaspheme him. Christianity, by contrast, celebrates God’s surprising descent. His nature does not trap him in heaven, but leads him to earth. In God’s great gospel, he not only sends, he becomes; he not only looks down, he lives among; he not only talks to us, he lives with us as one of us.”

“Get the word out. God is with us; we are not alone.”


That is such good news isn’t it?
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