My Jesus

I want to talk today about Someone Who is very special to me - Someone Who fills my every waking moment with the peace and contentment of knowing that I am His, the one He loves more than life itself. Perhaps you know His name. His name is Jesus - the Lord Jesus Christ.

My Lord is the fulfillment of every wish and every longing I could ever have. He is everything beautiful, elegant, delightful, and glorious. Every craving I have for beauty, He satisfies; because He is the Beautiful One Who created the vast riches of beauty in our world, as a faint shadow of the glories we will witness in Heaven. The brightest colors here will be washed out and dull in comparison to the blinding brilliance of His royal robes and jewel-studded halls - the purest and deepest music that brings us to tears here on earth will sound like a common vulgar ballad in comparison with the sweeping lines of melody and harmony that fill us with rapture there.

But my Lord is not only refined and beautiful; He is powerful and heroic - He is the Rescuer in my very own princess story. Once, I was a prisoner of a horrifying master, the devil himself, a hideous fiend who twisted my mind and forced me to perform his will. I was wretched and filthy, a crawling ugly thing who cared only about where her next fleeting sensual pleasure would come from. I didn't know that I could be royalty - I didn't care. I only cared about satisfying my own desires.

But then He came - the Great Rescuer of my soul! With one ringing cry He shattered the chains around my heart and swept me up into His arms, tenderly bathing my filthy soul in blood wrung from His own heart - He stood in the place where the righteous punishment of the King was to fall on my neck, letting the blow stain and wound Him instead!

It is because of Him, my Hero, that I am alive and free today - never again do I have to obey the temptations of the devil or of my own flesh. I am no longer a dirty, deformed thing in chains; I am a beautiful princess, tall and strong and brave, because His Name is written on my heart and I will never again belong to this world. I will never die - He has conquered death and won me from its hand. He walks by my side every day, not ashamed to claim me as His own, never wearying of my questions or stumbling, never letting me out of His sight, never denying me the guidance and help that I seek every hour of every day, never hesitating to give me every good thing that I need and desire. He loves me more than all the beauty and glory that He left; and I love Him with all of the power in my feeble heart.

But I never could have deserved to be loved like this! When He sought me, I hid from Him and rejected Him! Even since He rescued me, I have fought Him, ignored Him, denied Him, disobeyed Him, and disbelieved Him! I will never understand His love for me - I never could. But I love and worship Him because of it!

Do you know Him, the One Whom my soul loves? Have you seen how beautiful He is? Has He rescued you from the nightmarish chains of the world and the devil - and yourself? Have you felt the glow of His smile on your face, the warmth of His presence at your side, the power of His hand underneath yours as you fight your daily battles? Do you know my Jesus?