When I feel alone...

"To all who are looking down, holding onto hearts still wounded." joc
April 17, 2011

For 32 years Jesus lived His life unnoticed.  The Son of God- unnoticed.  Do those two words even belong in the same sentence? Talk about humility.  I'm sure Jesus had lonely days: probably didn't have many friends, was misunderstood, belonged to another time: no time really, was rejected, was different.  When He spoke of the parable of the lowly seat, surely He knew what he was talking about.  He became obedient, He took the lowliest seat, the last one, God became man.  How small He became.  He was obedient even to the very point of death, and not only death but death on a cross, what shame.  Jesus was lonely.

If anyone ever felt alone, it must of been the creator.  Going unnoticed by His own creation that He Himself spoke into existence.  Why did Jesus go through this?  Thirty two years of apparent waste.  As Hebrews says, He is a high priest who knows how to sympathize with us.  God went through loneliness to reach us.  He reached into our loneliness, the loneliness of being forgotten, the emptiness of trying to fill the dark night of the soul.  Looking out into a crowd of people hoping to belong, to be someone that matters, to be a part of something.

It's hard to be a reject, just ask Jesus.  Jesus was a reject so I wouldn't have to be a reject to the only one that matters: God. 

Christ took upon Himself all the rejection, hurt, & pain of being fallen from His birth to His death, so I would be forever accepted.  Called.  Called by name, taken by the hand, sought out a city not forsaken so echoes Isaiah.  God became God-forsaken so we wouldn't have to be-there is now no dilemma so grave that God hasn't been in, that God cannot relate to.  Oh God relates! He knows what it means.