There
is with each of us a great mountain of unexplored territory. Our personality is beyond our grasp, even the
smallest parts of it. That is why
egotism is such a dastardly sin against ourselves because what we think we are
is so far from the actuality. Just
consider your dreams and how profoundly they explore your depths. You dream of someone you cannot recall ever
seeing, create a narrative that is far more complex with plots and subplots
than anything you could ever put down in writing, express fears and colossal
desires you did not know existed. In
your dreams, lusts and cravings spring up from the pit of you that astound and
perplex you. That is just the brief
snippets of the dreams you recall after the first minute of waking. The boundaries of you that are versus what
you think those boundaries of you are far surpass the difference between all of
Asia and the little mosquito dancing near a swamp in Viet Nam. You are not merely the sum of your parts…you
go beyond all your parts and all the parts of everyone you know of those you
have met over the course of your life.
The shepherds were amazed by the angels…first one and then thousands
because they never imagined something so wonderful and spectacular. Come to Jesus and you will find that what you
know of Him and what you think you know of Him is even less than what you know
of yourself. Consider the wonder and awe
of those first moments when the shepherds looked up into the night sky and
watched the heavenly dance played out above them. They could not have realized that what the
angels announced was so much greater than what they presented of themselves. Why are we so dreary and lackadaisical when
it comes to knowing Jesus Christ? We
seem to be like the poor man who smashed his TV to get at the little people who
lived in his box and talked to him from inside it.. Can we not see that Jesus Christ is mercy and
love and joy beyond our wildest imaginings and that the glory of His being is
the most magnificent of discoveries and one that brightens exponentially with
each new exploration into Him? Have we
the persistence of the shepherds who scrambled to see the Christ Christmas
morning? Have we an idea of what consists
of the “big picture“? Do we realize how big
Jesus is?
So they hurried off
and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. Luke 2:16 NIV
