Make His Reality Ours

Does Jesus really have relevance in the daily, momentary life flow?

A man that lived two thousand years ago cannot honestly have advice for me living in the twenty first century.

He was a great teacher in his time, and we use some of his ideas, but to honestly say that he has all the answers is ridiculous. We like the ideas of love, peace, and justice; but those ideas were around long before Jesus.

There are still some of us who think Jesus really meant what he said!

We believe He is the:

-Logos (or Word of/about God)

-Immanuel

-Messiah

-Christ

-Son of God

We continue to believe that no matter what the surrounding atmosphere of culture says, this Jesus has the answers to not only our simpleton questions, but also the answers of reality itself. Jesus was saturated in the Spirit and very Breath of God. He was a rabbi (teacher), and ultimately paid the penalty for the sins of mankind. He was the fullness of God existing in the fullness of man. We embrace the fact that we are saved by grace through faith, and this is a complete gift from God (Ephesians 2:8). This faith is not only directed towards his death and resurrection, but also to everything he said and taught to those who would listen. We cherish his teachings and strive to live our lives by the lens of his reality, which is ultimately God’s reality.

The Messiah teaches us to follow His ways(John 14:15). So as Christ is the center of our faith, he represents the axis to which our lives revolve and rotate.

The heart and hub for things such as:

Our perspective of the world around us

The way we spend money

How we communicate

The things we think about

Our values

Our overall focus and goals

The way we care and treat people

The way we perceive ourselves in relation to God

As Jesus is our axis, we want His reality to become our reality. Ultimately we know His reality is Truth. We become His students. When we fall short, we know His blood covers our failures and screw-ups. We seek to see the world through his lens instead of our own. The nucleus of our existence is based upon the life and death of the Messiah.

So let us rise and be a people who’s AXIS is centered on Christ!