The One I love.

So here's my confession friends: often what should be most valued in my life, is shown the least value. Often what should deserve my strongest passion, gets my stubborn apathy. I am talking about my love for my God.

Lately I am struck again by some of those beautiful divine ironies that mark the Christian faith. Those 'tensions' and 'paradoxes' that make me just sit back and marvel again at Who God is. Whether or not you may believe He exists at this time - I would just love to share some of the diverse dichotomies I love about this Divine.

I tried to say them eloquently..but they seem to more so just tarnish the picture of Christ I wished to paint... so instead let me share with you a fantastic quote by a Scottish theologian named James Stewart:

"When I think of Jesus, I think of the mystery of divine personality;
the startling coalescence of contrarieties that I see in him.
He was the meekest and lowliest of all the sons of men. Yet he spoke of coming on the clouds of heaven with the glory of God.
He was so austere that evil spirits and demons cried out in terror at his coming, yet he was so genial and winsome and approachable, that the children loved to play with him and the little ones nestled in his arms.
His presence at the innocent gaiety of a village wedding, was like the presence of sunshine. No one was half so kind or compassionate to sinners, yet no one ever spoke such red-hot scorching words about sin.A bruised reed he would not break.
His whole life was love. Yet on one occasion he demanded of the Pharisees, how they were expected to escape the damnation of hell.
He was a dreamer of dreams and a seer of visions, yet for sheer stark realism, he has all of us self-styled realists soundly beaten. He was the servant of all, washing the disciples' feet, yet masterfully he strode into the temple, and the hucksters and moneychangers fell over one another to get away in their mad rush from the fire they saw blazing in his eyes. He saved others, yet at the last, he himself did not save.
There is nothing in history like the union of contrasts which confronts us in the gospels; the mystery of Jesus is the mystery of divine personality."

That's the One I want to love more and live like more!