Understanding Who Jesus Really Is

In many cases, as a tradition passed down, we say our prayers in His name, and unexplainably believe that He died for our sins. Some often think of Jesus as a creation who could not do any wrong as created and had the name "Son of God" from the beginning of time.

To understand God's love is to understand Jesus’s person. Grasping His personality will make John 3:16 clearer.

He is the express image of the invisible God.

The creator of worlds and things.

We even see God (The Father) refer to Him as God (The Son) in the book of Hebrews, an extent of the admiration and love He has for him.

Bottom line, He is the Father's creation whom He(The Father) handed over His privileges (What makes Him God) because of how well pleased He was with Him. A reason why Jesus said I and the Father are one. The Father being pleased with the Son is as a result of how much Jesus loved righteousness and hated iniquity, amongst other things as stated in Hebrews. And of course He has a free will too.
This is what makes Jesus special to the Father. No other creation has been ascended or will be ascended to this position.

The Risk

Imagine what is to be loved about man, especially while we were yet sinners, absolutely nothing. But not only was God willing to save man whom He could destroy and create billions of in a twinkle of an eye, He was also putting Himself and Jesus in harm’s way by doing so.

This is what makes this type of love indefinable. Because;

What if Jesus had rebelled against the Father when he was in the human form? What would our hope have been?
What type of havoc would He have caused with the Father's privileges (being God)?
How displeased and hurt would the Father have been?

But thank God all these weren't the case as an indefinable love was also demonstrated in the son. One who "For in Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and for him" came and served us with humility and through His teachings. The creator serving the created.

A thorough understanding of this should make us love the Father beyond bounds just as Jesus said, "Love God with all thy heart and all thy soul and all thy mind". If we understand the risk God took on us as illustrated above, "Love your neighbor as yourself" wouldn't be preached before we embrace it as our responsibility, we will love all men and women with passion regardless of how connected they are to us knowing the risk that was taken over their lives. Holy anger will descend upon us when we come across a life being misused. The passion to assist and bring up those less privileged at least to our standard would linger. We would do all it takes to please the father day and night.

Love As Best Defined

Love, as I’m lead to define it, is one preferring his/her husband/wife, brothers/sisters, parents or strangers over him/ herself. And this type of passion has one form of quality which doesn’t change across men. That is, the exact same way a man loves his wife or vice versa should be the exact same way he or she loves his mother, father, brothers, sisters and even strangers. This understanding is from how God loves us and the extent He went to prove it.

This definition of love perfectly answers the question thrown at Jesus by his disciples. "If a woman marries 7 times while on earth (due to previous ones passing away), who will be the rightful husband in heaven?" Of course if she grasped the concept of love while on earth, then her love for all the men would be exactly the same.

Based on this definition, a man from Africa can marry a woman from Asia or any other part of the world, regardless of their age, culture or whatever, and have a wonderful marriage if they understand what love truly means. Our tradition and culture as Christians should be strictly and only LOVE.

If this is the case, then what becomes of marriage, an institution where the word “love” is mostly used?

Marriage Interpreted

God, in His search on who to further explain the meaning of love to found His son Hosea. Not only was he told to marry a prostitute, he was also told to go and buy her back from slavery after she ran away from the marriage and continued a promiscuous life. Through his marriage God reveals His feelings to him (and us) and what should matter most to man. How He's always there regardless of how we treat Him. How He goes into His kitchen to make provision for us, guard us throughout the night while we sleep, sees us through the day and sets goals that we all rush to fulfill while ignoring Him. Shouldn't this break our hearts? Ignoring or mistreating men that He risked a lot to save can be added to the list, as our character is supposed to reflect His.

If God (Our Creator) can be slow to anger to this extent in His marriage to us, then who are we not to be able to dwell with anyone regardless of how frustrating we paint them to be? In marriages, most men see their wives, or the other way round, as less superior in thoughts, finances or activities, hence frustration sets in leading to broken homes simply because men/women refuses to be broken. We don’t meet God’s standards but because of His everlasting love, He sticks with us through the day. Shouldn’t we be able to do the same with our spouses as a reflection of our maker?

Good news! We all need to be broken in order to come close to being Jesus or else no man will see God.

The present State

Failure to understand love in this magnitude has crippled the Christendom. Priorities have been misplaced by Christians and non-Christians see every reason to mock Jesus Christ. The hopeless cries out for help (to be loved) everyday on our streets before eventually succumbing to hate, while we have supposed Christians in multitudes walking around with hearts of stones. We see divisions along tribes, ethnicities, politics etc. in our communities, offices and places of meetings, and it troubles not God's children. Division is further seen in school systems along religious lines instead of an institution where many should be welcomed with love.

Love trumps fear, it trumps hatred. It’s the amount of it in a society that dictates that society's success or failure.

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