The 7th lesson

7. Jesus. He is central, the focus, where all eyes should be centered and where all hearts can rest. I don’t know the depth of this but I am finding it more and more as I read the Scriptures and experience so many different cultures. Making Christ central is a must but to be honest, I’m not sure I understand that at the level that it is spoken of in Scripture. I know that I could come up with a lot of things to say and write but I am at a place where it is a principal that I believe and that I only feel like I’ve recently begun to grasp it on the level that I am being asked to grasp it at. Jesus has always been my Sunday School answer. An 8 year old who exclaims that they love Jesus is thinking much different (yet not so different) things than a 98 year old is thinking when he says the same thing. I guess that is where the pilgrimage never ends. Right now I know that Jesus is the center and in my life I feel like I am on the edge of the forest with the enormity of what that actually entails. Once the disciples grasped it, they turned their world upside down for Jesus and were all killed on account of his name. I don’t want to die, but if I could be killed for Jesus that would be incredible. For now I’ll just die daily as best as I know how and pick up my cross. Jesus wants to bless us with his intimacy and his presence I know, but as George has said, “The blessing without the cross only results in chaos.” We are called to many things in Christ, to many places for Christ and too much suffering on behalf of Christ but at the end of the day the 8 year old and the 98 year old are simply called to Christ. So after 7 points I have to ask the question again, “Where will our dreams lead us?” – I believe no more than ever they lead us to Christ who holds the supremacy over all Creation, sits at the right hand of God and carries our burdens and gathers our sorrows and asks us to only join Him in making His Daddy look good.