Lawbreakers, Believers, and Jesus

Lawbreakers, Believers, and Jesus

There's a big time difference between believing about Jesus and believing Jesus.

Believing Jesus — is believing that Jesus believes what He believed, believes what He said, believes how He said it, believes what He did, believes why He did what He did and said what He said, when He did what He did, and who He did it for. You are a believer. And you have a growing belief of what He believes — because believing Him — like a child — believes and trust Him — especially when you don't fully understand or know all there is to know about Him. Why? You are a believer.

Believing Him means you trust Him, and you're convinced He's worth trusting, and you're blessed believing He believes what He believes, lives, and teaches. You want to believe everything He believes and not merely something about Him and you will not settle on what others have said about Him. Why? You are a believer.

His salvaging work in Christ not only makes us safe with God, in an unsafe world, but He makes us safe for His work and witness, as He sends us out into the darkness as His ambassador. It's not that we have to have it all together… we need Him to hold it all together through us. Now, we become unsafe when we do our thing without Him and His light.

If Jesus compromised His reliability for His relatability — we'd be without a reliable Savior, satisfying Substitute, and trustworthy Shepherd.

We're not going to always get it right. That's why we needed and need Him — He never gets it wrong — never. Yet, that doesn't give me the liberty to throw out my reliability to Him. I'm free — but not free to do me or life without Him. My freedom is found in Him — and is only j