a visible representation of an ivisible god

If you aren’t there already in your Bibles, turn there. Which is what makes the prologue to John’s gospel all the more amazing. You would not, just to have seen him walk by, everyone wouldn’t have just started jerking their heads and “there he is,” “who is that man?” Just another person. He came from a nobody family in a nowhere town and looked like nothing special. He was a man of sorrows, acquainted with much grief. But we know, because the prophets tell us, he had no form or majesty that we should be attracted to him. Now if you saw the miracles, that would have got your attention, or saw the crowds. If you were transported to first century Galilee, almost without a doubt you would not have been impressed with Jesus. And on first glance, he was probably not someone very impressive. They had these expectations of a messiah, but he was not the messiah that they thought they were going to get. Well, that’s what we have when we meet the Lord Jesus Christ. And perhaps I could look more manly and more impressive as time went on by setting the bar very low.īut what if you have the bar set already extremely high, eternally high, and then you begin to see who this person really is and exceeds even all of those expectations. But I did figure, if nothing else with that early bit of disappointment, it was, the trajectory could only go up from there. So I haven’t done the pickup truck, maybe sometime in my retirement days I’ll fulfill that lifelong dream for my wife. No shame if you also drove one of those.īut I picked her up and at some point later in the conversation as we got to know each other, there was just that sort of question, just, “Kevin, the Neon, really? Why?” So now I just figure you just have kids and kids and kids and you’ll never be tempted to get a Neon again, you just have to get people movers to just sort of shuttle them all over. It was only later that my friends began to print out articles for me, “Top 5 Girl Cars,” and there it was, one of them on the top of the list, the Dodge Neon. It was the first car that I ever owned and purchased and seemed like a good idea at the time. And so when I came by and picked her up promptly and rode in on my white steed, the white 1995 Dodge Neon, she was less than impressed. Umm, that was a little know, you know, she did go to high school in Virginia so that was, you know, that was a little bit of good southern in her, to want her man to pick her up in a pickup truck. And she had, I didn’t know this at the time, but she always sort of had a picture of, you know, the man who would sweep her off her feet would be driving a nice sort of manly pickup truck. We had met before and we had gone out in some kind of context, but this was the first time that I was coming to pick her up on a date. My wife will tell you about the first time that I picked her up on a date. For someone to look more impressive the more you see them, that’s rare. Maybe you’ve had the opportunity before, somebody who was your great hero or somebody famous, and you get to know them and you see that they’re a lot shorter than you thought, or they’re not as nice as you thought, or they have issues like we all do. Or somebody can look very impressive from a distance. People can seem great on a first impression, most people are able to look halfway decent for a time and smile and talk friendly, then you walk away and you think wasn’t that wonderful? And then you get to know them a little bit more and you start to see someone warts and all. Have you ever met someone who becomes in your eyes more and more impressive the more you get to know them? That’s not normal. You help us to listen, to pay attention, to learn, to grow, to be changed, to worship. We pray now that you give us ears to hear, that your Word would breathe new life into our weary souls. And we thank you most of all for how he holds onto us. We thank you for all that we hold onto in in Jesus. We thank you for all that we have in Jesus.

Whatever comes our way, Jesus does all things well. Some of us need that later and some of us need that right now. For I know whate’er befall me, Jesus doeth all things well.

A visible representation of an ivisible god