Jesus Has No Social Clicks

At a Bible class today, we surveyed in Mark 2 when the Pharisees attacked Jesus for eating with sinners. The beauty of this event is that Jesus expressed genuine love for the people he was sitting with.

What uniquely spoke out to me at this passage is the Pharisees’ upset and bafflement of Jesus mingling with people outside his social status.

Its almost like they were saying: “Hey Jesus, we don’t hang with those kind of people.”

How I see this passage relate today is how we adjust to ‘clicks’.

“Don’t talk to him, he aint cool.”

“That guy is a freak”

“She is so weird”

When we get down with isolating every person we deem inadequate to meet our social acceptance, do we contain a real love for people?

My teacher fed this idea of isolating people when he said: “When you get done with isolating people, they only people you know are your people.”

Jesus said, “For if you love those who love you, what reward have you?” (Matthew 5:46)

Partial love never impressed anyone. I can’t say that I am not guilty of isolating people, but its questionable to see people redeemed by the universal love of Jesus, filter love.

1 John 3:1a is an appropriate reminder of what Jesus’ impartial love made us:

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!”

Jesus has no clicks.

The Hero by Jake Einwitcher

This poem was written by my dear friend, Jake Einwitcher. Jake and I met here at Pensacola Christian College in our freshman year. Until his recent transfer to a school in his hometown, Jake has marked himself as true and trusted friend.

The most outstanding characteristic about Jake is his unhidden, relentless love for God. His relationship to Jesus was transparent and contagious, which still leaves a strong imprint on the campus since his absence.

This work is a radiant reflection of Christ’s passion, accrediting Him our true Hero.

The Hero

He veiled himself in flesh, his glory he disguised
Humility was his dress, his word was sweet and wise

Here is Jesus in his birth, in the spaces of a womb
Here is God of all the Earth, in the sandals of a Jew

There goes the King of Kings, finally come at last
And as he goes, he brings, the gravity of his task

O! What a wondrous veil, made to be broken!
It ripped cold and stale, the Savior’s loving token

And as the blood dripped down his side,
And in the silence once he cried,

When the soul’s eyes are open wide,
We see his heart, he came to die

And it is impossible for any sinner to tell
Why God would take his place in hell

And oh, the tears of our eyes do drip
For we hear his heart not from his lips

O What love so speechless, words need not be spoken
The act itself, it reaches, hearts so hurt and broken

Thank You Jesus, my hero.

God Wants to Know You!

In the heart of every individual is the want for relationship.

When the Lord formed man out of the ground and put him in the garden, the Creator said to Himself, “It is not good for man to be alone” (Gen 2:18 NKJV)

From the very beginning, man was destined for relationships.

Adam had the world under his dominion and yet he was alone. He yearned to be circuited to a relationship.

Remember when you were in love? How you long to hear from her. Every email you read from her, made your heart leap. You want nothing more than to be closer to that person.

You know what I found about being in love: the same wish that I have to know a person more intimately, is the same desire God has for us. Made by God, we share his desire for intimacy. God wishes to know you intimately.

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any opens the door, I will come into him and sup with him and he with me” (Rev 3:20 NKJV)

God wants to know you. The God of all the universe, is the God you can know.

iHope Steve Jobs is in Heaven

Steve Jobs is dead. I’m should most of you know this by now.

Jobs was the patriarch of our social media age. He introduced the iPod which like redeemed the world of shuffling CDs through your CD player to harmonize a mental playlist for only your memory to enjoy.

I still hallmark the iPod like one of the greatest inventions of our century, among jeans pants and Facebook.

Macbooks and iPads are still like the mother of all envies among our peers today. And he founded Pixar! (Toy Story? Finding Nemo?)

Wouldn’t imagine the same Steve Jobs who lead Apple to the high end of its industry was the same person the company had fired years prior.

Jobs did leave a mark on our planet that we will long remember and hail for the years ahead, but I can’t help but think what Jesus said about earthly success:

“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).

Jobs has earned his place in history, but did he gained his place in eternity?

iHope…

God //Know It All

I’m back.

One thing that I keep forgetting is that God surpasses my comprehension. We don’t think the same. I play know-it-all, but God is all-knowing or Omniscient.

When I’m reminded that God and I never think alike, I see that I can’t get mad at Him when a decision He made has disturbed my comfort in life. I wouldn’t feel so insecure about the future, because time is in hands.

Isaiah 55:8-9:

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.”

God knows everything. Life is laid out as a book and He has seen every chapter. If that’s case, wouldn’t the safest thing we could ever do is to trust our lives to Him?