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Pentecost 85 Seeing the Heart of Jesus
Pentecost 85 Seeing the Heart of Jesus
When you think Jesus you can’t but help ask, ‘Why Jesus? This brings us to the most important event in His life and that is the Cross. Emblazoned across the centuries is that intersecting two-beam image causing us to focus directly where the two beams meet. It is there at the heart of the Cross we find the heart of Jesus. It is there we see where this world ends and where eternity begins. It is there that the visible and the invisible dimensions join. It is there we see the Creator and Creation meet. It is there that all questions are raised and answered; purpose, meaning and significance find their home. It is there that identity, relationship, life, death and eternity transcend the daily struggle for survival. It is there that the mind breaks its bondage, the heart’s longing is satisfied and the spirit lifted. It is there we know we find completion, where Heaven and earth have met, been reconciled and only the blessedness of our return to God is realized.
At the heart of the Cross we see how much we lost and how much we have to gain. We see how far from God we fell and how far He had to go to recover us. We see how distant we are from one another and how close we were meant to be. We see our inner struggle and His pain, our pride and His humility, our sin and His perfection, our fear and His love. We see man’s body and God’s grace locked for our sake in the bonds of death. We see man’s conspiracy, brutality, injustice, conceit, violence and manipulation flung viciously at the absolutely perfect personification of innocence. What we see above it all is One who carries, bears and embraces the full weight of man’s sin-driven incorrigibility and rejection of God yet, in one phrase, while breathing His last, says, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” In the visible we see revealed the invisible, we see forgiveness, we see compassion, we see what is impossible for us is possible in Him.
In the vertical beam we are drawn to look up to an everlasting life in Heaven and down we are aware of the darkness, the devil and separation from God over which the Cross stands triumphantly as the forever-victor. In the horizontal beam we see the hands of Jesus reaching out to each heart saying “Come unto me all you who are heavy laden and I will refresh you.” But still from top to bottom and side to side the Cross it is that juncture of the two beams where our gaze always reaches its inevitable destination, the heart of the One who makes eternal life possible. Jesus’ heart gave all to all for all.
He “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Phil.2:6-8).”
Think Jesus? This is only a beginning……….stay tuned
When you think Jesus you can’t but help ask, ‘Why Jesus? This brings us to the most important event in His life and that is the Cross. Emblazoned across the centuries is that intersecting two-beam image causing us to focus directly where the two beams meet. It is there at the heart of the Cross we find the heart of Jesus. It is there we see where this world ends and where eternity begins. It is there that the visible and the invisible dimensions join. It is there we see the Creator and Creation meet. It is there that all questions are raised and answered; purpose, meaning and significance find their home. It is there that identity, relationship, life, death and eternity transcend the daily struggle for survival. It is there that the mind breaks its bondage, the heart’s longing is satisfied and the spirit lifted. It is there we know we find completion, where Heaven and earth have met, been reconciled and only the blessedness of our return to God is realized.
At the heart of the Cross we see how much we lost and how much we have to gain. We see how far from God we fell and how far He had to go to recover us. We see how distant we are from one another and how close we were meant to be. We see our inner struggle and His pain, our pride and His humility, our sin and His perfection, our fear and His love. We see man’s body and God’s grace locked for our sake in the bonds of death. We see man’s conspiracy, brutality, injustice, conceit, violence and manipulation flung viciously at the absolutely perfect personification of innocence. What we see above it all is One who carries, bears and embraces the full weight of man’s sin-driven incorrigibility and rejection of God yet, in one phrase, while breathing His last, says, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” In the visible we see revealed the invisible, we see forgiveness, we see compassion, we see what is impossible for us is possible in Him.
In the vertical beam we are drawn to look up to an everlasting life in Heaven and down we are aware of the darkness, the devil and separation from God over which the Cross stands triumphantly as the forever-victor. In the horizontal beam we see the hands of Jesus reaching out to each heart saying “Come unto me all you who are heavy laden and I will refresh you.” But still from top to bottom and side to side the Cross it is that juncture of the two beams where our gaze always reaches its inevitable destination, the heart of the One who makes eternal life possible. Jesus’ heart gave all to all for all.
He “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Phil.2:6-8).”
Think Jesus? This is only a beginning……….stay tuned
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