Seeing Our Fairest Lord Jesus, the Person
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Fairest Lord Jesus. Do you think of Him as fair, as wonderful, as marvelous? I do. I love to consider myself a person who has been enraptured by Him, taken with Him, walking to Him, and asking Him questions throughout my day. He is the reason I’m never alone, never lonely. I know that He comes when I call, that He rules the universe and rules my life. I love that Jesus is mine, and I am His. By faith, I consider myself to be in a love relationship with him, both now and always. What do you want of Jesus, and what do you think He wants of you.
Listen, I have to be connected to the Head Himself, and push past any fear of Him and any doubt regarding my personal ability of exercising faith. These can creep into the daily Christian life. But when I believe that God has made me for Himself, and that I commune with Him, I have peace. Imperfect faith. Imperfect honor of him. Imperfect understanding of the mercy and grace I need. But He is still near to me, the person, because He is that good. Period.
I must live for His pleasure and receive His joy. I must trust in His love, and I must bring my sins, my many sins, to Him and believe that God welcomes me near yet again by the cross. For, that is both in His nature and in the nature of the salvation I’ve been breathtakingly given.
We must hear the psalmist who cries “take not your Holy Spirit from Me!” (Psalm 51:11) in His truly humble confession and hear God’s answer that He won’t. The Spirit remains. Christ remains in the darkest, bleakest, and most sinful times because those who call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. And He cannot deny Himself (2 Timothy 2:13). They shall. This is the truth, and this is good. Can we together go to the cross — to choose over and over and over to believe Jesus Christ?
He is with us. And that’s true even when we have simple faith, and not the intensity of faith Jesus deserves. We shall not be afraid (Psalm 56:4). When we are tediously wondering whether or not He will draw near again today, we need not look at our sins as self-accusers but consider Jesus faithful to keep us. He is faithful to hold us. He is faithful to welcome us. The Lord is my keeper (Psalm 121:5), as the blessed psalmist says.
Love the Scriptures. Yes. Love them.
Love the Person the Scriptures reveal to us — our Fairest Lord Jesus. Yes, do this, as Jesus made us and saved us for Himself. He wants us. Never forget it!
To know, to be known. This is great love that He has for us, that we should become children of God and this is what we are (John 1:12). Jesus is praised by our relational faith in Him; in Him, through Him, and for Him are all things. So we are, and so we shall be.
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Lianna Davis is author of Keeping the Faith: A Study in Jude and Made for a Different Land: Eternal Hope for Baby Loss. She is also a contributor to We Evangelicals and Our Mission with Cascade Books. Lianna is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute and a student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. She lives in Illinois with her husband and daughter. You can learn more about her writing at her website.