Hello everyone! I haven’t written in a while. This month has just blown by. We had a wonderful vacation and now it is time to get back in the swing of writing.
I have really been feeling that I should blog through the life of Jesus. I was given this great compilation book called “All About Jesus”. It takes the four gospels and combines them into one story on the life of Jesus. I am going to use the book as the jumping off point to explore Jesus’ life and ministry. I think it is going to be a wonderful journey.
John in his gospel sets the stage for Jesus’ life, ministry, death and resurrection. He starts in “the beginning”. The very first thing we must understand about Christ is that He was “in the beginning”. John uses these words to connect Jesus to Genesis 1. Jesus is the incarnational expression of the Word of God. He is and always has been with God and He is and always has been God. John sets the stage for the grandest expression of God’s love to us. God himself, the eternal and powerful “I Am”, became a man so that He might show Himself to us and reconcile Himself to us through Jesus!!
God didn’t destroy us for our sin and start over. He chose to become one of us and make straight the path so that we might be restored back to relationship with Him. What an incredible act of love that the complete fullness of God might be laid down and God himself becomes a man. He bacame a man that He might reveal Himself to us. As Jesus told Phillip, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father”.
My prayer is that over the next weeks and months we might see Jesus in a new light. That we might see the Father through the Son!! When we catch a glimpse of the Glory of God through the Son we can never be the same. When we accept Christ as our Lord we can begin to participate in the divine relationship that God Himself expresses through Father, Son and Holy Spirit. His goal for us is that we experience that complete oneness with God through Jesus Christ our Lord!! It is this oneness that melts away all that is broken in us. It is that oneness the transforms us into the likeness of Christ. It is that oneness that allows us to be the tangible expression of Christ to our world. He is the vine and we are the branches. We have been grafted in as sons and daughters to participate in the grand incarnational expression of God to the world. Lets go on a journey with Him!!