No wonder she felt a bit lost. If your idea of God is “something out there” then you could never know if there even is a right path in life, never mind be sure that you’re on it.
I said, “What if God isn’t something that is out there, but rather someone who loved us enough to come down here?” That's what Christmas is all about, God coming to us in the person of Jesus Christ – God the Son.
The prophets said it would happen:
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel [meaning ‘God with us’].”
Isaiah 7:14
For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Micah 5:2
God has made Himself known. He has spanned the divide and appeared in history. We don’t have to wonder what He’s like. See Him blessing the children, comforting the sorrowing, condemning the hypocrites, lifting the fallen, befriending the lonely, loving the unlovable, receiving the repentant – that’s what God is like.
He has also made Himself knowable. The lady I was speaking to said she felt a bit lost, but the fact is that we are all lost, whether we feel it or not. The wrong we have done has separated us from God. We could never have come to Him, but He has come to us, and He said He came “to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10). That’s why He went to the cross. He died to pay sin’s penalty so we could be forgiven and reconciled to God. He paid it in full and proved it by rising from the dead.
Because He has come to us, we now can come to Him. In coming to Him, you are coming home – it’s where you belong.
