Jesus

I was reading over some of Jesus' sermon on the mount, this morning (from Matthew), and was really able to appreciate it afresh. Sometimes it's easy to lose the shine on things that you've heard a million times.

But here, in my red letter Bible, you've just got these few pages of wall to wall red. It's all Jesus, and His words. And each sentence, each phrase, each word is just fathoms deep with meaning. It amazed me what He came and did with the law. He radically simplified it, brought out the true essence of it, stripped off all the excess layers of it. At the same time, He is radically loving, humble and gentle, while being incredibly strong, firm, unwavering, kingly. No one else has ever been like that.

And the more you look at Jesus, the more you get amazed at who He is. In this world, you become so accustomed to disillusionment. The things, people, ideas etc etc that you love, the closer you look, the more flawed they become. But Jesus is absolutely water-tight, without failings, without blemish, without anything at all to say against Him. When you can get into that head-space or heart-space when you can really see a glimpse of Jesus, all you can do is fall before Him in absolute praise and worship and thanks.

He is awesome!