Gain Through Loss

To understand and clearly articulate the dynamics of the Holy Trinity is beyond my comprehension. The more I study and wrestle with this, the more confusing it becomes. This is definitely one of those “For now we see through a glass darkly” situations.

Consequently, in my journey to know and enjoy God more intimately, I’m just going to focus on isolated Biblical passages that seem to fit in the context of the totality of Scripture, like Hebrews 1:3a that states, The Son radiates God’s own glory and expresses the very character of God, and he sustains everything by the mighty power of his command. So, as I observe Christ’s walk through the pages of the New Testament, expressing the very character of God, I’ll know God more deeply, subsequently enjoy Him more profoundly.

Max Lucado gives us a unique view of Christ in his devotional “Heaven Came Down”. I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. John 6:38
“This is no run-of-the-mill messiah. His story was extraordinary. He called himself divine, yet allowed a minimum-wage Roman soldier to drive a nail into his wrist. He demanded purity, yet stood for the rights of a repentant whore. He called men to march, yet refused to allow them to call him King. He sent men into all the world, yet equipped them with only bended knees and memories of a resurrected carpenter.

“Has it been a while since you have seen him? If your prayers seem stale, it probably has. If your faith seems to be trembling, perhaps your vision of him has blurred. If you can’t find power to face you problems, perhaps it is time to face him. One warning. Something happens to a person who has witnessed His majesty…One glimpse of the King and you are consumed by a desire to see more of him and say more about him.”

And to “face Him” I know of no other way than to spend time with Him, engaging Him through prayer and getting to know Him through Scripture – reading, meditating, memorizing. And because of Christ’s sacrifice for me (and you), we can walk boldly into God’s presence, pull up a chair at His banquest table and confidently say, “Abba Papa, please pass the bisquits.”

Allow the writer of Hebrews to describe it in 10:19-22 And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. 20 By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. 21 And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, 22 let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

Know Jesus and we know God. Emjoy Jesus and we enjoy God.
I trust our paths will cross on the journey.