I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth…..
AND
in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord.
So few words, so many deep meanings! When we repeat this second phrase of the Apostle’s Creed we are affirming many things:
- That Jesus IS the Christ, the Messiah or anointed of God, the very special one sent by God to save God’s people (the very name Jesus comes from the Hebrew word “Yeshua,” meaning The Lord Saves!)
- That Jesus, in ways we may struggle to imagine or express, is not just the SON of God but was actually God incarnate on earth.
- That as such Jesus shows us definitively what God looks like, how God acts, what the nature of God is
- That Jesus has existed as long as God has existed, and was present and active in the creation of all that is, the Word of God through whom all creation was spoken by our creating God
- that Jesus the Christ is Lord of each of us and Lord of the whole cosmos; that it is Jesus the Christ who holds our universe together, and puts it back together in love when we break it with our unloving acts
- that this wonderful Lord of all things deserves to rule, in our hearts, in our lives, in our church, and in the cosmos.
What an amazing Lord!
Will you let him rule in your heart, in your life, in our church?
Blessings,
Pastor Deborah