Theological Musings

he title of this post is completely tongue-in-cheek, by the way! Since I have gotten tagged several times for the same thing, I feel like I better finally get around to participating! John Smulo started it (although he mercifully didn’t tag me). In the time since this particular tag thing started, I have gotten tagged several times, to the point that I don’t even remember who all tagged me.

I know for sure that Brother Maynard, Aussie John, and Brandon all tagged me, and I seem to think there were a couple of others, too, although I can’t find them at the moment.

At any rate, you have probably already seen people writing their posts on “5 Things I Dig about Jesus”. I’ve not been real crazy about the use of the word “dig”, but at any rate, I’ll take the time here to list five things that I appreciate and love about Jesus.

1. He is my best friend. He demonstrated this by laying down his life for me. By his own words, there is no greater love than when someone lays down his life for his friends.
2. He is my brother. By placing my trust in him, I have the right and privilege to be called a son of God. Because he is also a son of God, that makes us brothers!
3. He showed me the Father. Not only did he show us the Father, but he made it possible for me to have a relationship with the Father.
4. He showed me how to live a life that pleases the Father. By consistently doing only those things that the Father instructed him to do, he demonstrated a life of obedience. And now he empowers me to do the same thing.
5. He took the penalty for my sin and the curse that went with it. Sin no longer has any power over me unless I let it have that power. But because of what Jesus did, I no longer have to yield to the power of sin.

I feel like there’s so much more that I could write, because these five things only scratch the surface. But I’ll let it go at those five for now.

Feel free to add more in the comments section.

Almost everybody I read has already been tagged, so it’s a stretch to find five people to tag. I will just give a stab at it here by tagging:

1. David Wayne (JollyBlogger)
2. Tomas Perez
3. Raborn Johnson
4. David Rogers
5. Rose (Rose’s Reasonings)

Until next time,

steve