He is Jesus. The
Christ.
He is the Third of God who came to Earth
2,000 years ago.
Reigning with God and the Holy Spirit
since time began, He left his heavenly comfort zone to become a helpless baby in a barn, to serve
the poor of Palestine.
And to die for everyone on Earth who did
not want to die but could not help themselves.
The Trinity, the Triune God, is a great
mystery.
You may have
heard the term Three-Headed God (not in scripture) to describe the Trinity, but I prefer a
Three-Hearted God (also not in scripture).
The
distinctive Christian doctrine is that there is one God.
The Father is God.
The Son is God.
The Holy Spirit is God.
There is a distinction between the persons so that the Father is not the Son; the Father is
not the Spirit, and the Son is not the Spirit.
Each is a person.
And each is
love.
As humans, we
can understand love only in the context of receiving it from the one who created us, and giving it
back with all our hearts and souls.
Like David, we are to praise God --
Father, Son, and Spirit -- with all our hearts.
Joshua urged us to throw away the foreign gods that are among us and yield our hearts to the LORD.
And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in
accordance with God's will.
And if we search for Him
with all our heart and soul, Paul promises we will find Him.
Then, if we confess
with our mouth, "Jesus is
Lord," and believe in our heart that
God raised him from the dead, we will be saved.
May he
strengthen our hearts
so that we will be
blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.
The Lord your God will change your heart
and the hearts of all your descendants,
so that you will love Him with all your heart and soul
and so you may live!
Forever!
How does Jesus get such power?
He got it 2,000 years ago
on the Cross.
Where, fully human, just like you and
me, he did not say,
"You go to hell, world,"
He said instead,
"Father, forgive them."
And
"It is finished."
And "just as Saul turned and started to leave, God gave him a new heart,
and all Samuel's signs were fulfilled that day.
Who is this Jesus?
He is my
savior and Lord. And I pray, if He is not yours,
God will give you a new heart
Today.
"How
precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings."
Joe Hickman, HaLife.com |