How can we live without The Rescue? When the void inside of humans is mentioned one thinks immediately of Pascal: in every heart there is a God-shaped vacuum. But what if God enters the void, not to fill it, but to bring a cross? What then? Joy! Joy never comes but with a cross: " for the joy set before him he endured the cross." "Count it all joy, brethren, when you encounter various trials." It is not from the void that we are rescued but within it. To follow Christ is to bear his cross into the void. Faith accepts the void as part of our fallen, human condition; unfaith seeks to be rescued from it in a multitude of ways. Escaping the void is what much fundamentalist and evangelical preaching is all about, but in escaping the void, one also escapes discipleship. Only by walking with Jesus through the void can true joy be found. Much of what modern evangelical American churches offer are means whereby the void can be filled; consequently they have to offer more and more. Because the void can never be filled in this life; it can only be suppressed through varieties of religious experience and activity. It will always re-emerge. Only by embracing it through the cross of Christ can true joy be found. Only in our acceptance of the pangs of finitude do we rejoice in the eternal victory of Christ's cross.