Jesus, Jesus, Jesus

THAT IN ALL THINGS HE MIGHT HAVE THE PREEMINENCE

Jesus. Yeshua. Joshua. This post may seem simplistic but in reality it is the deepest of all. The Incarnate God who named Himself Yeshua is THE glorious mystery of eternity. The angels don't completely understand. The demons believe but tremble. Most of the world has heard Your name but remains woefully ignorant of who You are, Lord. Visual in human form and yet present everywhere. Living in the heart of every believer yet sitting on a throne in heaven. Creator of all and yet succumbing to death. Savior and Judge. Friend and Master. You Lord Jesus are the glorious enigma that only Your Spirit can teach to a seeking heart.

Before the worlds were made Jesus was. Not just existing but reigning in splendor and glory. With no universe? Go ahead all you theologians, explain that. To say it is out of our league is an infinite understatement. It seems that before the Second Person of the Godhead was born in Bethlehem and took the name Jesus, He was The Word. And so Jesus IS The Word and The Word IS Jesus. He is so perfectly glorious and august, that all the preaching, songs, thoughts, and human knowledge about Him just "touches the hem of His garment". He is easy to find but past finding out. His enormous deliverance confounds the Evil One and His everlasting keys have unlocked prison doors and set believing captives free. And His freedom is complete and forever.

You, Lord Jesus, will be forever heralded in the expanse of heaven as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And Lord, we ourselves get bound with the things of this world and so often fail to take in the daily fragrance of the Rose of Sharon. Jesus is everything to us. Our breath, our thought, our sustenance, our beginning, our end, our everything. The world needs the saving power of the Lord Jesus Christ. They will never understand abortion, homosexuality, immorality, nor can they. They need Jesus. And Lord you did not come to reform the world, you have already told us the fate of this wicked world. You came to offer the full forgiveness of our sins, the fulfillment of the Passover Lamb.

Now everything must center on the Person and work of Jesus the Christ, not his moral teachings, not His miracles, not His travels, but totally Who He is and What He has done...FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD. Jesus Himself said that if He is lifted up He will draw all men to Him so why do we ever get caught up with moral/political issues when the Lord has commanded us to LIFT HIM UP?? We should urgently, lovingly, clearly, but decisively lift up Jesus Christ as the ONLY way to eternal life, Christ and Him crucified. It's Jesus and only Jesus. The suffering Lamb of God. The Savior of the world. The Lion of the Tribe of Judah. We allowed a man like Mel Gibson to make an astounding movie about Jesus when it should have been the committed evangelical community that made a better movie with God's Word to accurately explain to a lost world the implications of what they were seeing. Instead we just criticized him but were not exhorted to get the complete message out.

Is it not time Jesus that we present You to a lost world in such a way that they would sense our passion about You? Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Forgive us, Lord, we have made you an appendage and not our life, our movement, our very being. The past is You, the present is You, the future is You, it is all You.

We are in desperate need of a revival of You, Jesus, so that people will again describe us as followers of Jesus.