Jesus is The Greatest…
Every day we're reading or listening to part of the Bible together and sharing thoughts with you. Today it’s Bern Leckie:
What did I like about today’s passage?
Jesus is The Greatest … Showman? … Dancer? … Love of All? I think at least one of those is true.
I love that the writer of this letter really, really loves Jesus and has clearly done a lot of thinking about how great he is. Not just a symbol of good but “the exact representation” of God. And not just someone who turned up 2000 years ago, but who was there making the universe, written about through history in scripture, and above all remains living eternally.
I could just listen to this on repeat and worship all day. But there is another purpose to this dazzling description of Jesus’ greatness, majesty and power. It’s to do with us.
Maybe most amazingly, Jesus chose human life and death so that he could “taste death for everyone”, breaking death’s power over us when we believe and follow him.
The signs of how God could bring us back to full life with him were written into the laws and religious traditions of his chosen people, who had special access to symbols marking the way to heaven. But Jesus turns out to be greater than any of those symbols – he is the real thing they were all pointing to, and he makes God accessible for all of us.
What did it show me about Father God, Jesus or the Holy Spirit?
God has always been serious that we can and should reconcile with him. He needs us to know that we can’t do this by our own efforts, but must do this by recognising and following Jesus. So there is nothing of greater importance than believing in him.
“God is the builder of everything,” including a house that he has already made us part of. He is not remote from us. If we feel remote from him, it may be an issue with our hearts.
What am I going to do differently as a result?
Check my heart. I recognise that it can feel hardened to God’s invitation to believe sometimes, and if that is down to “sin’s deceitfulness”, what am I choosing to believe instead?
Who am I going to share this with?
This will be great to discuss with people who did “The SHAPE of you” course with us last year, and we’re due a reunion to see how we are doing after discovering or remembering who God has made us to be.