Look Beyond Modern Terms
 
      I advise you not to listen to those who spend their time demeaning the person of Christ. I advise you to look beyond the cloudiness of modern terms used by those who themselves are not sure who Jesus Christ was, in reality.
      You cannot trust the man who can only say, “I believe that God revealed Himself through Christ!” Find out what he really believes about the person of the incarnate Son of God!
      You cannot trust the man who will only say that Christ reflected more of God than other men do. Neither can you trust those who teach that Jesus Christ was the supreme religious genius, having the ability to catch and reflect more of God than any other man.
      All of these approaches are insults to the person of Jesus Christ. He was and is and can never cease to be God, and when we find Him and know Him, we are back at the ancient fountain again! Christ is all that the Godhead is!
      This is the wonder, the great miracle—that by one swift, decisive, considered act of faith and prayer, our souls go back to the ancient fountain of our being, and we start over again! This means back beyond the angels, back beyond the beginning of the world, back beyond where Adam started—back to the glorious, flowing fountain we call the being of God, the triune God!
      It is in Jesus Christ Himself that we find our source, our satisfaction. I think this is what John Newton perceived in the miracle of the new birth, causing him to sing, “Now rest my long-divided heart, fixed on this blissful center—rest” (from “O Happy Day” by Philip Doddridge, 1755).
      Can there be any explanation for the fact that we seem to know so little of Jesus Christ even after He has made Himself and His blessings so readily available to His believing children?
      Part of the answer may be found in our own human reasoning, which becomes so easily discouraged in the face of God’s infinity and God’s character.