Just another...

just another minute or two with you, my readers, to attempt to press home one idea:

this idea is that JESUS, HIMSELF, is whom we are to please.
right now
right here
today
Jesus is the focus of our thoughts, life, everything...

Jesus is the one we live to please, and this isn't burdensome, in light of the great love with which he has loved us and the great price at which he won us back from sin, ourselves, the claim of the devil, the power of entropy...the suction of this swirling world...

Jesus. All the angels worship Him. ...in whom all the fullness of Deity dwells... whom Thomas calls "My Lord and My God"
Everlasting Father
Mighty God
Wonderful
Counsellor...

Jesus.

Name above all names at which every knee shall bow.

Nothing matters but what He thinks.

How does this shape your worship? How does this shape your outworking of faith? Do you think God put you here to serve your neighbor? your community? Do you think that serving men is what God commissioned you to do? No.

you are commissioned to make disciples for Jesus, preaching the gospel He preached and the Good news that He has come and that He is the One. We are commanded to love each other and to love Him with all we have, and our neighbor as ourself.

We are committed to endure shame with Him, bearing the stigma of the cross in a swirling world...

just another shot to focus us...

there's just nothing better around than Jesus Himself, of whom the Scriptures testify.