Saturday, April 1, 2017

MY BIRTHDAY WORD FOR MY BELOVED JESUS CHRIST 2017

In the book of Isaiah, the Lord declares, “How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another,” (48:11.) He will never give up His title or yield His supremacy. He is untouchable, invincible and eternally glorious. In our celebrity – obsessed culture, fame rises up and then fades away – one minute someone has it, the next minute he or she is nowhere to be seen, and then someone else enjoys or endures their fifteen minutes of fame. God, on the other hand, will never allow Himself to be defamed, nor will He let His glory pass on to another. He is the undisputed heavyweight King of all Glory.

The Lord God Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, stands set apart from all other. We are the created, and He is the Uncreated. Around Him revolves and unfolds the story of His great and eternal glory. And yes, right through the very heart of this epic narrative rons a beautiful thread of grace – He is the steadfast God of love – and there is mercy to be found on every page. Time after time we find ourselves amazed by the blessings He lavishes on us. Yet let’s not be fooled into thinking that this Story is all about us. It never has been, and it never will be. God is very passionate about His own glory.

He is not like one of us. He is utterly incomparable – beyond the furthest horizon of our imaginations. He is off the scale of our comprehension. We have merely known the shadows of the mighty deep.

The God we worship is clothed in mystery. He reveals and He conceals. He invites and He hides. He confounds and He confides. The God who rests but never sleeps. Who thunders and whispers, terrifies and befriends. Whose anger lasts only a moment, but whose favor lasts a lifetime. Who is all – consuming yet kind, all – knowing yet capable of forgetting the sins He forgives. The God who wounds and binds up, who injures and who heals. The King whose footstool is the earth, yet humbly washed the earth from the feet of those He discipled. Who reigns in righteousness yet carried our shamefulness. Who walked in the Garden of Eden in the cool of the day, yet sweated drops of blood in the Garden of Gethsemane one agonizing night.

The God of the smallest detail and the grandest design, who issued or nate designs for an extravagant templet yet found pleasure in the humblest offering of a widow’s two tiny coins there. The suffering servant. The sinless friend of sinners. The Savior who hung in agony on beams of wood He Himself had called into being. He is fearsome yet welcoming, unfathomable yet knowable. The God of kings and beggars, presidents and paupers. Who Fathers the fatherless and works through our weakness. Burning with holiness, yet refreshing and graceful.

He who is worshipped by the multitudes of heaven yet rejoices over a single returning heart. Perfect in every way yet able to help those who are being tempted. He who is faithful even to the faithless, for He cannot disown Himself. This is the God we worship – the God of all mysteries so bright.

I find it inspiring to read the earthly accounts of JESUS CHRIST in the Gospels and then flick straight to the heavenly description of His glory in the last book of the Bible. We encounter a JESUS who is fully human yet fully divine. Many find it easy to picture the man JESUS found in the Gospel writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. And it’s crucial to feed on these amazing accounts of the 33 years JESUS spent walking on earth. But if we’re to grasp the bigger picture, it’s essential also to feast on the revelation scripture gives us of the eternal, glorified King JESUS.

In Revelation 22, He is revealed as “the bright morning Star” (v.16,) “the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End” (v.13.) He is the triumphant Lion of Judah (see Revelation 5:5.) He is the Ruler of the kings of the earth, crowned with many crowns. With justice He judged and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, His feet like glowing bronze and His mighty voice like the sound of rushing waters. Yet within the very same passages, we encounter Him as the Lamb who was slain. Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown.

When we encounter the whole CHRIST, we find an incredible mix of power and patience, glory and grace. He speaks in words of both tenderness and toughness, rebuking the heard heart yet welcoming the broken sinner. There is a certain kindness in His majesty. CHRIST is neither a hard taskmaster nor a soft touch. To the woman who caught in adultery, He spoke words of tender discipline: “Neither do I condemn you… go now and leave your life of sin” (John 8:11.) He is easy to please but hard to satisfy – the smallest offering of an honest heart will bring Him pleasure, yet He also has an insatiable desire to see us live out of lives of the utmost holiness.

If the Holy Spirit should come again upon as as in earlier times, visiting Church congregations with the sweet but fiery breath of Pentecost, we would be greater Christians and holier souls. Beyond that, we would also be greater poets and greater artists and greater lover of God and His universe.

“Who can sound the depths of God’s glory?
Every single song falls short.
No poetry says it well enough.
No melody expresses it beautifully enough.
Our lives themselves become the song,
living every note of our existence in response to God’s glory.”



I LOVE YOU, JESUS.
YOU MEAN EVERYTHING TO ME.
YOU ARE MY SHIELD AND MY VERY GREAT REWARD.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BLESSING ME TODAY WITH THE FULLNESS OF YOUR LOVE..

LOVE,        
Yhang > 3

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