Don't Leave Me!
My husband has had a sweet relationship with our youngest grandson since birth. We've been blessed he has been able to live with us in the summers and has now moved 2 minutes from our home. When it would come time for him to leave, my husband would say in a very animated voice, "DON"T LEAVE ME, Wilson!" To which he would reply, "I'll be back!"
God in his love and mercy choose not to leave us in our sinful separated state, but to provide a way back to complete fellowship with him such as Adam had in the garden. That's the beautiful message of Christmas. Jesus is the WAY back from our sinful state and he will never leave us.
Paul Tripp wrote-"Let me define the brokenness of sin, which every human being shares, with five words: separation, inability, decision, judgement, hopelessness. First, because of sin we exist in a from-birth state of separation from God....Separation from God robs us of the core reason for our existence. And also renders us unable. It makes it impossible for us to think as we were made to think, to desire what we were created to desire, to speak as we were designed to speak, and to behave as God intended for us to behave...it also leaves us in a continual state of delusion. We think we know ourselves well, but we don't. We access that we are more righteous than we actually are...Sin leaves us separated from God, it places us under his judgment. How tragic it is to be under the judgement of the One for whom you were created. Sin leaves us hopeless."
But praise the Lord, God in his abundant grace, mercy and forgiveness shouts to us, "Don't leave me! There is a way back! His name is Jesus."
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.
Deuteronomy 31:6
The Song
"The Church Will Sing-Messiah" by Jordan St Cyr
