The Enormity of It All

 Meditations on the Epistles of Saint John

October 21, 2020

The Enormity of It All

 We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life.

1 John 1:1

The enormity of it all is overwhelming. The basis of the Christian faith is a belief that the Creator of the universe desires a personal relationship with humankind. To accomplish this desire, the Creator became a living human being. This human being, Jesus, suffered and died on a cross. Jesus dead and buried only to be resurrected from the dead and live again.  And this resurrected human being is God the Creator, . . . 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, many people 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 in 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. Hence, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard came up with the expression, ‘leap of faith’ as a metaphor for a belief in God.

My Takeaway: 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.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

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