Comfort

People are searching for connection, direction, and hope in a troubled world, and we can use their star-shaped questions to point them to the shape of the cross.

Jesus is proclaiming the good news that he has come to put an end to laboring to be loved by God.

The cross is not some mystic metaphor for the change we must undergo before our self-realization, but the earth-shattering event that changed the course of eternity.

We will always need comfort until the reign of God, his kingdom, comes in full with Christ’s return, and our suffering and the sin that causes it is no more.

You have this Shepherd who knows your voice, your cry, your incessant baaing.