Monday, February 2, 2009

No Sweeter Name...

i've been reading through 'john' lately...getting to know my jesus more and more. and i have to say that i've just been overwhelmed!

for starters, i'm convinced more than ever that jesus is the greatest love affair there can be...and should be, as it unlocks a whole new life of love and adventure!

on sunday, one of the topics was about how god asks that we take communion together because his heart is that we remember what he did (and do that together in community)...remembering how significant the death of christ was for us. but as we talked about it, i felt in my heart like god was saying that the death was significant to him too...not in the "horrible and painful ordeal" way, although that certainly was true. it was a "my heart was set on that moment too...a special moment that i'd been hoping for since the beginning...because it meant we could return to what was meant to be...us together." we make it so much about sin sometimes that we forget that the true lover of our hearts died for us...knowingly...so that the true romance could be found.

it's like his last breath was the great exhale...the "finally" for all of the hopes of heaven.

i don't know...it was just a sense that the specialness of communion was more than factual sin payment...it's the intimate embrace.

it just makes me feel all the more the words that rose said in the end of 'titanic'..."he saved me...in every way a person can be saved".

his death, life and love sank deeper in this gal. makes me want to burst out crying sometimes...makes me want to jump up on my chair in worship. amazing!

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