God Help The Outcasts
I recently rewatched Disney's Huchback of Notre Dame and was reminded just how much I love this song. I've always wanted to talk to Esmerelda about God. If Esmerelda was real, I would tell her that she was right. Jesus was an outcast too. In Isaiah 53:3 we read "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not."' Jesus was not welcome in His own hometown of Nazareth (Luke 4:24) and the Pharisees and Sadducees hated Jesus. However, God does love and help the outcasts. In the Bible we see Jesus spending a lot of time with people who were outcasts. He talked to a Samaritan woman at a well even though Jews did not get along with Samartians (John 4:1-30) and He ate with sinners (Matthew 9:10-13). He is a friend to the friendless and a Father to the fatherless. Unlike people, God will never abandon you, even in your darkest moments. Trust in H