Sunday, April 26, 2015

Love is easy

Falling in love with somebody is pretty easy it actually happens pretty quickly. 

When we think of Jesus as a man rather than a myth he becomes very easy love. Imagine you have a friend who believes that you were worth a lot. Who believed despite your mistakes you are worth dying for. Somebody who believes that you have the right to make mistakes that he understood you were going to make mistakes and he wanted to forgive you even before you made those mistakes. What a deep perfect type of love that would be. 

Our relationship to Jesus is often compared to that of a marriage and when we marry our spouse we sign up to love that person for better or for worse no matter what's coming because we know hard times will be coming, just like Jesus knew he was going to love us for better or worse no matter what was coming because he knew that we were not yet perfect and that he would have to love us through the hard times. I'm willing to bet that you have friends or family that are like that.

 Do you have a brother or sister or spouse or parent, whom you would do anything for?

 Who you would take a bullet for?

 I know I do. Loved ones whom despite any mistakes that they have made it doesn't affect how much you love them? I know that I feel that way about my friends and family and Im lucky to I say I think that my friends and family feel that way about me. 

When we look at Jesus as a man he's easy to love because he did this. He loves his friends and family to the point of dying for them and for the people of the future (thats you and me). Dying for a cause is not really realistic in our current society because we don't often have to die to for our beliefs anymore. Were lucky to be citizens the United States of America because in many other countries there are people still dying for their beliefs today.

 In Jesus's time people didn't have the right to their own beliefs and if you believed differently than everyone else you could be put to death and Jesus taught that was wrong and he fought it so hard to the point that he knew he would die for his purpose and he accepted. He accepted what he knew to be his father's will. His father who he says is also our Father. He calls us brothers and sisters. Jesus never stood looking down on everyone he brought everyone to his level he was so humble that he rejected being made a king because he knew that isn't worth any real glory. Real glory is when we humble ourselves for the needs of others. That's a real King. 

Where I'm going with this post is that Jesus and who he was and what he stood for and what he did made him an easy person to love and I believe that's the way he wanted it.

 I believe that he proved his love in such a way that he would be easy for us to love, not hard. He wanted to prove his love in the largest of ways so that it wouldn't be that hard of a choice for us to love him. He made it easy for us to love him by making it obvious that he loves us.

 My issue is sometimes today we make it hard to love Jesus. We make it about following many rules and doing what many other people say and not just about falling in love with the man who was willing to die for the greatest cause. A man who was willing to lay down his life because he knew that we were sinners and that we would continue to sin and that despite that fact we were worth it anyway. 

If you don't know Jesus he is hard to love. He's a big myth, surrounded by many rules and many regulations and many religions. However, if you get to know Jesus the man he is very very easy to love. That is why God went through all the trouble to send his son in the same form as us, because that was the proof of his great love. He was willing to live a life like we live and die a horrible death. Even willing to feel pain and embarrassment and hardships and even endure a cruel and painful death to prove that this life is worth it. His life was worth it and that our lives are worth it.

 How could anyone not love Jesus?