Exact Representation (Lent 17, 2024)

God is love so immense, eternal, powerful, pure, holy, and infinite that we couldn’t take it in were it to be blasted upon us full strength.  Jesus is God and is love filtered for our understanding. 

Jesus is every bit immense, eternal, powerful, pure, holy, and infinite as is God the Father, but His humanity made Him approachable. 

He’s not a “Whitman’s Sampler” of God’s love with only a select few aspects being shown and other parts that people aren’t as fond of hiding in the full-size box.  He’s more like a human bucket of water pulled from God’s eternal ocean.  Or a core sampling of every eternal layer identically represented.  Every aspect of God’s love is there, just filtered, veiled, or in a size we could see without it blowing our minds.

Exercise:  Imagine God.  Now make Him bigger.  Keep magnifying His nature and make Him even bigger than that.  Your God is so big you can’t imagine a God that big, that powerful, that pure, that loving, that holy, that merciful, or that eternal.  Jesus is God, even when He walked the earth.  How did Jesus show us perfectly who God is but in a way that we could understand? Join me tomorrow for how Jesus’ crucifixion revealed God by revealing God’s love.

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