"What about you? Who do you say I am?" (Matt 16:15)

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You who hold the universe in it's place.

 

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The one who is same yesterday, today, and forever.

 

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You are the Passover meal, the bread and the vine.

 

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You are the scepter of Israel, of God's people.

 

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You are the scapegoat and the sacrificial lamb.

 

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You are the blood on my doorpost. The angel of death shall pass over and not kill me.

 

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The shadow of the almighty.

 

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You are the good samaritan.

 

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You are my celebration, you are my freedom.

 

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You are my Snow.

 

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You are my Kingdom. You are my Heaven.

 

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You are my Amen.

“Amen,” replied Benaiah son of Jehoiada. “May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so declare it. 1 Kings 1:36

 

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You are my hurricane, my fire, my wilderness, my thunder.

N.T. Wright, in the introduction to his book, For All God’s Worth, writes:

How can you cope with the end of one world and the beginning of another one? Or the thought that the hurricane has become human, that fire became flesh, that life itself came to life and walked in our midst?

This, he goes on to say, is what Christianity is all about. And the question for us is: how ought we to respond to such news? The answer is: Worship. That is the only appropriate response.

What is he referring to?

In the Old Testament, when God appeared to the people it was often a terrifying experience. God appeared to Job in the form of a tempest (AKA “hurricane”). When God appeared to the people of Israel in the wilderness on Mt. Sinai, it was in the form of a consuming fire, essentially a fire-storm of lightning and fire on top of the mountain. The message was: God is inapproachable. To attempt to come near to Him would result in certain death… God even told Moses that if anyone would see Him in His glory, they would surely die.

And yet, the incredible message of Christianity is that in the person of Jesus, “the hurricane became human,” that the “fire became flesh” and “life itself came to life and walked in our midst.” And as a result of what he did, we have the promise and the hope of the end of this corrupt world and the advent of a new and better world to come.

 

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You are my Sweet Fragrance, my Holy Ground.