(An encouragement from Tammy Von Horn who will be preaching at Blazing Fire this Saturday night)
Didn’t you just love Pastor Brent’s email last week describing Jesus as our most awesome and powerful King? Didn’t that email both remind you of truth you already know and challenge you to be amazed all over again at the absolute majesty of our Savior?
John the Baptist spoke something very similar in John 3. John’s disciples approached John with a tone of concern that more people were beginning to go to Jesus to be baptized instead of coming to John’s camp.
In response to their concern, John beautifully describes his perspective of Jesus and himself,
"You yourselves know how plainly I told you, ‘I am not the Messiah. I am only here to prepare the way for Him.’ It is the bridegroom who marries the bride, and the best man is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows. Therefore, I am filled with joy at Jesus’ success. He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less. Jesus has come from above and is greater than anyone else. We are of the earth, and we speak of earthly things, but He has come from heaven and is greater than anyone else. He testifies about what He has seen and heard, but how few believe what He tells them! Anyone who accepts Jesus’ testimony can affirm that God is true. For Jesus is sent by God. Jesus speaks God’s words, for God gives Him the Spirit without limit."
Because of the amazing revelation given to him, John understood who Jesus was and also knew who he was. We, like John, are invited into this revelation where we also behold and understand the majesty of Jesus and in that knowing come to understand how precisely we were created and reborn into His likeness.
In the beginning when God created everything, He deliberately created you and I in His image. Now on one end of this spectrum, this may mean that some of us have His nose or His chin or even His ears. Or that likeness may apply to your mannerisms – do you laugh like God or sneeze the way that He does? But on the completely other end of the spectrum, you were designed to mirror your big brother Jesus, shaped to carry as He does, God’s spirit without limit. Aren’t you amazing?!
I am so excited to share even more about this very topic on Saturday. And just to let you in on a little tip, if you come with your Bible (we’ll be camping in John 3, 6 and 9) AND a hand mirror, you will be just as blown away as I’ve been lately at how unfathomably kind God was towards us when He simply conceived, shaped and presented us in His very image.
Didn’t you just love Pastor Brent’s email last week describing Jesus as our most awesome and powerful King? Didn’t that email both remind you of truth you already know and challenge you to be amazed all over again at the absolute majesty of our Savior?
John the Baptist spoke something very similar in John 3. John’s disciples approached John with a tone of concern that more people were beginning to go to Jesus to be baptized instead of coming to John’s camp.
In response to their concern, John beautifully describes his perspective of Jesus and himself,
"You yourselves know how plainly I told you, ‘I am not the Messiah. I am only here to prepare the way for Him.’ It is the bridegroom who marries the bride, and the best man is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows. Therefore, I am filled with joy at Jesus’ success. He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less. Jesus has come from above and is greater than anyone else. We are of the earth, and we speak of earthly things, but He has come from heaven and is greater than anyone else. He testifies about what He has seen and heard, but how few believe what He tells them! Anyone who accepts Jesus’ testimony can affirm that God is true. For Jesus is sent by God. Jesus speaks God’s words, for God gives Him the Spirit without limit."
Because of the amazing revelation given to him, John understood who Jesus was and also knew who he was. We, like John, are invited into this revelation where we also behold and understand the majesty of Jesus and in that knowing come to understand how precisely we were created and reborn into His likeness.
In the beginning when God created everything, He deliberately created you and I in His image. Now on one end of this spectrum, this may mean that some of us have His nose or His chin or even His ears. Or that likeness may apply to your mannerisms – do you laugh like God or sneeze the way that He does? But on the completely other end of the spectrum, you were designed to mirror your big brother Jesus, shaped to carry as He does, God’s spirit without limit. Aren’t you amazing?!
I am so excited to share even more about this very topic on Saturday. And just to let you in on a little tip, if you come with your Bible (we’ll be camping in John 3, 6 and 9) AND a hand mirror, you will be just as blown away as I’ve been lately at how unfathomably kind God was towards us when He simply conceived, shaped and presented us in His very image.
