Dane Ortlund: Listened to some music and thought about Jesus this week. Here’s what I jotted down.
1. His forgiveness gets down underneath not just our conscious, willful sins, but everything that is broken within us.
2. He ate lunch with hookers and crooked businessmen, not the conservative seminary professors.
3. Discipleship to him does not involve attaining a minimum level of
competency. No resume is needed. Discipleship to him involves humbling
ourselves, putting ourselves low, not high, and anyone can do that, if
they will simply let Self die and be swallowed up by light and beauty
and joy.
4. Those in union with him are promised that all the haunted brokenness
that infects everything—every relationship, every conversation, every
family, every email, every wakening to consciousness in the morning,
every job, every vacation—everything—will one day be rewound and
reversed.
5. Those in union with him are promised that the more darkness and hell
we experience in this life, to that degree we will enjoy resplendence
and radiance in the next (Rom. 8:17–18).
6. He never, ever asks his friends to walk through a trial that he, as
the Pioneer-Author-Founder-Trailblazer (archegos: Heb 2:10; 12:2) has
not himself, in an even more profound way, gone through himself.
7. His sinlessness does not encourage him to be aloof from us, holding us at arms length, but a substitute for us.
8. Unlike the laws of ritual cleanliness in Leviticus, Jesus’ touch of
messy humans like me does not contaminate him. It cleanses me. In the
OT, clean + unclean = unclean. With Jesus, clean + unclean = clean (Mark
1:41). Continue at Dane Ortlund
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