
“What I love about Jesus” is just that…a page all about seeing Jesus, which to me is like glimpses of seeing him, like glimpses of glory. It’s kind of weird saying what I love “about” Jesus or “why” I love Jesus because really it’s all about his love and himself towards us, but I guess it’s about the freedom of responding to his love, and embracing his love and, while reaching out to him because he is reaching out to me, taking his hand
| urging us on | pursuing him and him pursuing us | his gentleness | Just how I have come to know him and to know him is truly to love him |
| That he would invite us to this reality of life and share with him. It’s the opening and sharing, this participation. | It’s just the grace and I mean his willingness and wanting and joyfully doing it for us, just being able to witness God on our behalf | His tenderness | His faithfulness, unwavering, just based on who he is, love. |
| invitation for him to grow in you | every member of his body expressing him | his unity with his body | forward motion |
| always more | the certainty and the mystery | his eternal purpose | forever |
| how he is uniquely expressed through every member of his body | what I don’t know, couldn’t possibly know yet, only so much now I can know, and that being overwhelming | the moving on, the invitation to move | witnessing him in others |
| He is who he is independent of what we do, so we can trust him, we can rest, we can praise | how he challenges me to live out of my spirit | who happens on the inside, and the warfare that declares on defeat | that he wants to shine through us |
| his living personhood | always speaking to us from the future | His immediacy | Seeing him |
He keeps inviting me back
the newness
the possibilities
His Body
his pursuit of us
the future
the glory of exalting him
stirring us to be a participant in God’s story
his delight in doing it all for us
being that narrow way
reality
the nudging
the utter reliance on his grace
he’s already done it, he has already paved the way
his multitude of expressions