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Living with JesusFriday, December 31, 2010
1 John 2:21 The same is famously true for bank tellers who are taught to recognize counterfeit money. They touch and rub and notice the real stuff, dollar after dollar after dollar. Eventually the bad money just stands out. It's wrong. It's alien. They know immediately. John tells his readers they can do the same thing. Why spend a lot of time focusing on lies? Just spend hour after hour with the truth, and the lies will scream out what they are. What I mean is spending hour after hour with Jesus (who calls himself the Truth and the Life) rather than any textbook or teacher of truth. Jesus communicates in ways much more thorough and effective than thought or even image. He is like a mentor who does what he does while I watch and work alongside him. I can learn more from being with Jesus than reading about him my whole life long. I know this requires that I use my imagination and do a little suspending of the everyday way. Making it to work, getting enough to eat, keeping my feet on the ground sometimes have to take a back seat while I get together with Jesus. Lots of people think I'm crazy, maybe. Isn't it worth it? Of course it is. When I spend time with Jesus, the Bible comes alive. Not the other way around. Lord, I want to be with you. I want to know your heart and your mind and follow the ways you follow. I don't need to focus for long on how I'm NOT doing that. Just turn me around and get me back to learning all you have to teach me. |
We have a new friend who is a sonographer. She learns to read sonograms by looking at the healthy ones over and over and over and over, until she begins to recognize the unhealthy ones. They become obvious. They are aliens.