The thing about getting to know someone is that to truly do it, you can’t stay on the sidelines.
Biographies are a good example. You can read some and it is clear the writer collected the material from dustbins and the scraps of forgotten tabloid reject articles. They know the subject as well as your three year old knows how to do brain surgery.
Then there are those who get in depth regarding the character. The level of meticulous detail shared in passion and all its drama displays a love for the subject that submerged them deep into the person. A truly great biography leaves you thinking you have as good as lived the life described so interlinked are you with the story.
The thing about knowing Jesus, is that He is not someone to just read about on the sidelines. Some who claim to know Him betray a shallow interest in Him. This is tragic, because His story demands more than interest on the surface. His life that perked the interest of children was a life of profound depth and calls you to know Him in those depths.
Depths of intimacy that washes you. Depths of compassion that leaves you head to toe drenched in love and soaked in holiness. Depths of wisdom that reminds you that knowing is not just an issue of the head.
It is more than taking a dip in water to associate yourself. It is an expression that you want to be totally immersed in Him. The ‘your life for His’ exchange is so immense, that as it took His death to give us life, so it costs us death to embrace that life.
And it is a lifelong commitment to being submerged. For the drops will not suffice. The shallow end cannot satisfy.
Life in Christ is about complete immersion.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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