Saturday Song: Frank Mills, "Love Me Love Me Love"

What a story this song tells. A heart-broken man took to the streets to sing about his lost love. It's one of a handful of songs, that I know of, which deals with the subject of street people. Listen to it here.

Emotional trauma is nothing new. Imagine how Adam and Eve felt when they were driven out of Eden and couldn't return. Imagine how Moses felt during his forty years in the desert. Job, Elijah, and others also had their times of deep depression and loss.

This is why many people who hear the gospel are attracted to Christ. We read of one outcast woman's reaction to meeting the Messiah in John 4:28 and 29 (Bible in Basic English). "Then the woman put down her water-pot and went into the town, and said to the people, 'Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?'" The whole Samaritan village believed when she led them back to where Jesus was.

Christ also gave this marvelous invitation to weary souls in Matthew 11:28 (BBE). "Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest."

But proud people, like the Pharisees, feel they need no help. Jesus told a parable about two sons. One said he'd work in the field but didn't. The other refused at first but felt guilty and went into the field to work. Then Christ asked in Matthew 21:31 (BBE), "'Which of the two did his father's pleasure?' They say, 'The first.' Jesus said to them, 'Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.'"

This is why rescue missions are so successful. Like Christ said in Matthew 18:4 (BBE), "Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

If Christ hasn't returned by Monday, I hope to publish about a type of disinfectant you can't find in stores.