1 John 1

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The enormity of it all is overwhelming. I had that thought recently as I was looking at some photographs made by the Hubble telescope. The photos clearly revealed clusters of stars and galaxies millions of light years away from planet earth. To travel just one light year you would travel 5,865,696,000,000 miles. I just got home from traveling 700 miles in a day and a half, and I am pooped. How long would it take me to travel five trillion, eight hundred sixty-five billion, six hundred ninety-six million miles? Like I said, the enormity of it all is overwhelming.

So also is the basis of the Christian faith. When you consider the enormity of the infinite universe, the idea of a Creator is not that much of a leap of faith. But, for that Creator to desire a personal relationship with humankind, for that Creator to become a living human being, for that human being to suffer and die on a cross, for that dead and buried human being to be resurrected from the dead and live again, for that resurrected human being to be God, well the enormity of it all is overwhelming. But wait, there’s more! This resurrected God gives an invitation to all human beings to come unto Him, to live in unity with Him for all eternity. Now, the enormity of it all is truly overwhelming!

Because of this enormity, human beings have surrendered to the temptation to reduce God to a more manageable size. At the time John was writing this letter, there was a faction in the church who could not accept that Jesus, God, had really become a human being. John opens this letter with his assurance that Jesus was most certainly fully human. John says that he saw Jesus, he heard Jesus, he touched Jesus and that he had, and is continuing to enjoy, fellowship with God the Father and His Son, Jesus.

John says that you cannot hide from God, so why try. Own up to your sin, receive the cleansing forgiveness of Jesus and immerse yourself in the fellowship of believers as together we immerse ourselves in the fellowship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Yes, the enormity of it all is overwhelming. That just makes it more wonderful when you make the leap of faith into the loving arms of Jesus.

So, kick off your shoes and dive in. Life in Christ is fine!

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Reading for 21-Apr-12       1 John 2