Dare to Believe

In this blog of many parts, there is one section that seems somewhat repetitious but, it terrifies me to talk about because of the implications of it. This sections known as Dare to Believe is the one section where Jesus is the focus of the topic and not just Him as the Savior but, as a man as well. It's difficult to think of our Savior as a man because of the tone we apply to Jesus but, what we often fail to discuss is the obvious aspect of His humanity. Now I am not here to say that Jesus was only one or the other, because He was both, but, in order to understand the Incarnation we have to separate the Divine and the man and then re-conjoin them together. We are not separating them to eliminate one or the other but, to understand who Jesus is in His entirety.

When I ended my Apologetic's study with a small group of teenagers, I presented them with the central idea that we cannot share the truths of our faith if we do not have the love of Christ in us and showing through us. In this series I would like to take this same idea only tweak it a little by saying this, we cannot understand the depth of the love of Christ if we do not understand that He loves us. Make sense? You cannot understand the extent of the love of someone if you do not already have a basic knowledge of the love the individual has to give. Likewise, we cannot understand how great the love of Christ is if, we do not understand His love in any fashion.

One of my personally favorite songs about the love of Christ is "How He Loves" by the David Crowder Band. The song, masterfully poetic in it's lyrics, describes the love of God as a raging hurricane and us a tree bending under the mercy He gives and the grace that consumes the very struggles that cause us to become side tracked with the worries of this life. Then, simply the chorus reads "how He loves us so". Isn't that amazing? All the glory and power in Heaven and Earth, greater then all of our struggles, our cares, or worries  and fears, put on display for all to see that we might see just a taste of the love Christ has for us. Imagine this as the one inch mark on a ruler on the meter stick that measures the love our God has for us. The immeasurable love of God all for us.