Hi Jacob

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The idea that God suffers with us and not just for us is transformational. Could it be that Immanuel - "God with us" also means a "God who suffers with us" ? 

Which human heart would not want to love a God who suffers with their pain? And that is what the cross essentially symbolizes (not discounting all the other theology aside)?  Did not Jesus say, "When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself ?"  Could the message of God who suffers with us (though no explicitly spelt out but has to be inferred) be that magnetic force that will draw humans to their Creator?