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SpeakersCorner · 04-20-2015, 07:19 AM

Thanks for the kind words, UntoHim and CountMeWorthy. I quit posting many moons ago because I didn't like what it was doing to me.

I stand by my verse, John 12:24, as a rock solid proof verse that, at least in some sense God has experienced loneliness. I don't think it's like we experience it exactly but Jesus did have a kind of wistfulness in his voice when he talked about having no place to lay his head.

A conversation with a young lady a number of years ago opened my eyes to something concerning God's lack (stay with me on this one). She, a rich girl with a rich daddy, was seeking to validate herself so she traveled to India on her own and lived for a month there trying to live small and identify with the poor of the world as well as learn a little TM. She was fresh back from the journey, full of excitement and a newfound sense of self-worth. She also was back in her rich world, enjoying her daddy's credit cards.

I didn't want to burst her bubble but I did tell my wife afterwards, "Poverty is the one thing money can't buy."

That woke me up to God's problem. He has everything except poverty ... frailty. He cannot buy it. We have frailty, failure even, in truckloads. So we have something God lacks. This makes us attractive to him. By coming as a man, through our fallen lineage, he put on frailty. He did not try to cheaply buy it; he went to India, so to speak, to die, not to return home after a brief, selfie-snapping, self-worth validating mission trip.

And this is how I see the lonely God: as one who would cherish our frailty, even marry it. We bring to God the one thing he couldn't bring into himself alone.

I may have shared that experience years back. If so, I apologize. But it has really stayed with me.

04-20-2015, 07:19 AM	#35
SpeakersCorner Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 273	The lonely God Thanks for the kind words, UntoHim and CountMeWorthy. I quit posting many moons ago because I didn't like what it was doing to me. I stand by my verse, John 12:24, as a rock solid proof verse that, at least in some sense God has experienced loneliness. I don't think it's like we experience it exactly but Jesus did have a kind of wistfulness in his voice when he talked about having no place to lay his head. A conversation with a young lady a number of years ago opened my eyes to something concerning God's lack (stay with me on this one). She, a rich girl with a rich daddy, was seeking to validate herself so she traveled to India on her own and lived for a month there trying to live small and identify with the poor of the world as well as learn a little TM. She was fresh back from the journey, full of excitement and a newfound sense of self-worth. She also was back in her rich world, enjoying her daddy's credit cards. I didn't want to burst her bubble but I did tell my wife afterwards, "Poverty is the one thing money can't buy." That woke me up to God's problem. He has everything except poverty ... frailty. He cannot buy it. We have frailty, failure even, in truckloads. So we have something God lacks. This makes us attractive to him. By coming as a man, through our fallen lineage, he put on frailty. He did not try to cheaply buy it; he went to India, so to speak, to die, not to return home after a brief, selfie-snapping, self-worth validating mission trip. And this is how I see the lonely God: as one who would cherish our frailty, even marry it. We bring to God the one thing he couldn't bring into himself alone. I may have shared that experience years back. If so, I apologize. But it has really stayed with me.