Michael Card, A Sacred Sorrow...

“God did not send the Messiah as the sort of solution everyone expected. They wanted someone who would kill Romans. Jesus, instead died for the Romans. They wanted someone who would give them answers. Jesus gave them Himself.

“What else but His Presence could have perfectly answered all our deepest needs? For though we could have never imagined it, what we thought we needed, solutions for the problems that caused our pain, would have never fixed the problem.”

Those who are far from you will perish...But as for me, it is good to be near God.