The Love of Christ
Jesus. There are so many facets of Jesus, it would take a lifetime to unpack them all. Here are some of the ways that we know him though. He is the Son of God, the Bridegroom, Savior, our Advocate, our High Priest. We know him as the Author and Perfecter of our faith. The thing I hear more than anything about Jesus is that he is love. The part people sometimes do not understand is just how sacrificial his love is. We should know how costly this sacrificial love is. It is easy to say, "Jesus died for you", but how many people really know what that means and why that was necessary? This certainly is not going to be one of those "feel good" posts that you are going to share as a way of encouraging others. This is the smallest glimpse of the hard truth of sacrifice and why it was needed. We will never understand the love of Christ until we understand the sacrifice of Christ. Will you step back with me into the Old Testament a...