Revelation: Dealing With The Enormity Of Jesus

One of the words that has really had a new meaning to be over the year 2010 is revelation.

I got a hint about it in 2008 when I had the reassuring word given to me that the last book in the Bible isn’t actually written as a scary apocalyptic novel to graphically tell me the end-times.  This was news to me, because I didn’t dare try and get my head around the book for all its imagery and bloodshed and that kind of stuff all of which required an understanding of allegory and other brain tasks that I didn’t have the time for.

The deal with the last book of the Bible was in the title itself – it is about the Revelation of Jesus Christ.  So if all I got stuck on was scary apocalyptic pictures of the end times, then I had missed the point.  Likewise if I was caught up in the picture of heaven, then I had missed the point.  Likewise if I was stuck in what happens in the judgement, then I had missed the point.  A bit like the poor Pharisees had missed the point when they came across Jesus Himself.  A bit like some of my poor expressions of following Christ has missed the point in the light of who He is.

That brings me back to that word – revelation.

You see, missing the point of Jesus is very easy in Christendom.  Let’s have a look – healings, miracles, doctrine, prophecy, ecclesiology, liberal/conservative, institutional/organic, mission, leadership, male-female relations, spiritual gifts, evangelism, social action, culture, tradition, Bible versions, denominations, the various ministries – choir, youth, singles, mens, womens, etc.  That is just the tip of the iceberg and that is more than enough for anyone to get bogged down in the stuff of Christianity and completely missing the point of Jesus Christ.  Of course as you’ll note, all of those things are hinged on a … revelation of Jesus Christ!  Yet it is simple to side-step the revelation to get into the minutiae of the things of Jesus Christ.

So in thinking about Jesus being the beginning and the end – the sum of all things if you will – I am all the more determined and motivated not to get side-tracked.  As people consider resolutions for the new year, I’m caught up with a resolution that permeates every minute, hour, day, week, month, year and decade of the new life.  I want to know Jesus Christ – and Him alone – all the more.  I want to delve and live by the revelation of Jesus Christ, through His Word and His Spirit in all life from beginning to end.

I am reassured to know that this will take eternity and it is why it is a joy to be on this journey of faith getting to know Him who is literally eternal life.

Just blogging.

That is all.

For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

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