Jesus is bigger than I let him be maybe.
He's definitely a lot bigger than he seems.
If Jesus is who the Bible says he is, he has to be way more different than we see him.
Way more active
Way more present
Way gentler
Way more human-esque
Way more God-like
Way more compassionate
Way more understanding.
Way more ready to transform,
to change,
to impart wisdom,
to give his Spirit,
to end suffering,
to heal,
to send us out.
Way more loving than we think about.
But does our limited thinking limit his power? Limit his presence in our lives? Limit his healing? Limit his love? His transformation?
The laziness of my mind wants to answer 'NO'...wants to believe that whether we realize it or not, the power of the presence of Christ is forever active, forever pressing on our souls.
But does that make it true? Does Christ forcefully flood our existence with his presence?
Does he just change us without us ever getting to know him?
I don't know.... I don't know.
But I read once that God's presence is like the sunlight enveloping a flower. That its just there...always there...filling every surface area and doing lots of changing on the inside.
The flower has no choice but to accept the sun's life-giving rays.
The heart is a little different than the flower though, huh? It has a choice. It has the ability to stay shut, to not let the presence of the Son affect it. Or it can open up and take in all the Son has to offer, being changed and made new and full of life.
Maybe at times we have the door shut. I think I do a lot.
Other times I think I can see when I've had the door open.
But GOD, whether my heart was open or shut, was always there. He has always been surrounding me, waiting for me to let him come in more and more.
He's never moved. He's never changed.
We have to believe He's so much more than we've let him be. We have to believe he's better than the circumstances of our hearts' door. We have to believe he's more.
Because he is....
He's more.
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