WE ARE IN HIS IMAGE
Consider a song you like to hum or sing to yourself. Isn’t it easy to reminisce the rhythm or immediately recognize the melody? It is something you know quickly when only hearing a few notes. You would love to be challenged with this particular song if ever you found yourself as a contestant on “Name That Tune”. Or consider one of your favorite food dishes. Something easy to recognize by smell; your saliva connects instantly with your taste buds when thinking about the experience of eating it. Plus, you are brought to satisfaction while eating and become new again to an old pleasure, somewhat like a childhood memory. Now consider the meaning behind this scripture:
“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me- just as the Father knows me and I know the Father- and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring then also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life- only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
John 10: 14- 18
What does it mean for Jesus to know you? What does it mean for you to know your spouse? Is it possible for another existing entity to be intimate with you? Is it possible for the creator of the universe to really know you so intimately and it still be good? Do you feel good about Jesus knowing you? Do you dance to the rhythm of the music of heavenly angels? Are you comfortable knowing that your Messiah died for you? Do you feel that He needed too? Why… why such deadly blood for the simplicity of pure justice? Who are we to question the audacity of grace? What day will come when all this reasoning will change? How can pain balance the currency of fate? Where does the moral flow? What does it mean to be a God… a creator of the universe? This is what it means to be good.
Consider a song you like to hum or sing to yourself. Isn’t it easy to reminisce the rhythm or immediately recognize the melody? It is something you know quickly when only hearing a few notes. You would love to be challenged with this particular song if ever you found yourself as a contestant on “Name That Tune”. Or consider one of your favorite food dishes. Something easy to recognize by smell; your saliva connects instantly with your taste buds when thinking about the experience of eating it. Plus, you are brought to satisfaction while eating and become new again to an old pleasure, somewhat like a childhood memory. Now consider the meaning behind this scripture:
“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me- just as the Father knows me and I know the Father- and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring then also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life- only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
John 10: 14- 18
What does it mean for Jesus to know you? What does it mean for you to know your spouse? Is it possible for another existing entity to be intimate with you? Is it possible for the creator of the universe to really know you so intimately and it still be good? Do you feel good about Jesus knowing you? Do you dance to the rhythm of the music of heavenly angels? Are you comfortable knowing that your Messiah died for you? Do you feel that He needed too? Why… why such deadly blood for the simplicity of pure justice? Who are we to question the audacity of grace? What day will come when all this reasoning will change? How can pain balance the currency of fate? Where does the moral flow? What does it mean to be a God… a creator of the universe? This is what it means to be good.
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