WARNING PREACHY…
“God is not so much about fixing things that
have gone wrong in our lives as He is about finding us in our brokenness and
giving us Christ.” ~Sweet & Viola[1]
This
quote, in the context of the book, is proclaiming a simple transformative
revelation and relationship with the person of Jesus Christ; relationship for
the sake of the relationship itself and not what we humans can get out of it. Many of us Christians “love Jesus” because of
the feelings we get at the Sunday morning worship time at church, or because we
get to go to heaven when we die, or even because we are still waiting for our
miracle, but what we Christians should desire is simply a relationship with Jesus,
the Christ, only because of who He is.
When
I married my wife, I had visions of how she would improve my life as we lived our lives together. Truthfully, she has not lived
up to most of the ideals that I had, and to be candidly honest, I haven’t lived
up to them either. We are now in our 19th year of
marriage and what we’ve both learned (and are learning) is that we are in
relationship with each other regardless of any benefit that we might get out of
it. We should be selflessly devoted to each
other, for the sake of the other; simply for the sake of the other. What a terrible relationship it would be if
we were only in it for what we could get from it.
The quote
above puts into words and helps me to consider my
relationship with Jesus. Am I seeking
Him for what He can do for me, or how I can feel, or am I seeking Him simply
for who He is?
Honestly? I have to admit that I too often fall into
the trap of caring for Jesus because of what I get out of Him and not simply because He alone is worthy of my love and honor.
I need and desire to change that.
I need and desire to change that.
1 Corinthians
2:2
“For I decided to know nothing among you
except Jesus Christ and him crucified.”
[1]
Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ
(AMAZON--http://a.co/02bJ9Or)
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