Has it ever seemed to you that in the times of
your greatest need the God with us in not with you at all? All humans suffer and we all seem to feel
that we suffer alone. “But go to Him
(God) when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you
find? A door slammed in your face, and a
sound of bolting and double-bolting on the inside. After that silence.” C. S. Lewis writing on God after his wife Joy
died of cancer.
Advent is about us seeing God for the first time
and God for the first time being separated from Himself by flesh and
blood. Christ could not be 100% human
and fully enjoy God with Him. He was
just like us and in His most desperate time, the day life showed up menacing
and deadly, His 100% human self heard the dead bolt doubling locked from the
inside silence… “My God, My God, why has
Thou forsaken me?”
There is a great mystery there and one that no human
can fully understand but there is one undeniable truth, in that event all the
troubles of all humans were resolved. He
felt forsaken but in reality God Was There welcoming all humans back with Open and Forgiving Arms.
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