1 Timothy 3:16-17 – All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God a may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
1 John 4:16-17 – And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.
Let’s not want to be “sensible” in how we love and serve the Lord. Was it sensible for the Father to send Jesus, and for Jesus to want to come, to humble Himself by shedding His divinity to live as a man? (Philippians 2:6-8) Was it sensible that Jesus, the God who created and loves us (John 1:3), to come to live as a human child to be teased and ostracized by other children because they could sense that He was different, and because they thought Him strange as He would not join their shenanigans? Was it sensible He would come knowing that as a young boy even the adults would look at Him and think Him strange that He had such keen spiritual insight though He hadn’t been formally educated in the educational system? (Luke 2:46-47) Was it sensible for Him to come knowing that even His own half-brothers would ridicule Him and not believe in His divine nature and that He was indeed the Chosen One, the Messiah, and the Lord God in the flesh? (John 7:1-5, Mark 3:20-21) Was it sensible for Him to willingly step off His heavenly throne to take on human flesh (John 1:14), to be rejected by His own people (Luke 4:24), to be mocked, ridiculed and spit on (Matthew 27:27-31), to be punched in the face (Matthew 26:67, John 18:22) to have his beard torn off (Isaiah 50:6), to have a mock crown of thorns forced down onto His head (Matthew 27:29), to be whipped till His organs were exposed (Mark 15:15), to carry a rough wooden cross on the raw nerves exposed in His back (John 19:17, Mark 15:21), and to have nails driven through His hands and feet so to secure Him to the wooden cross that He would asphyxiate upon? (John 20:25) Was it sensible for Him to come and die for our sins so that we could live forever in His love and in the love of the Father? (Colossians 1:21-22, Hebrews 10:10) Was it sensible that He should look from the cross upon people who had put Him on the cross, the cross on which He could not breathe unless he pulled up on His pierced hands and pushed up on His pierced feet, to still love them so much that He would cry out to His Father “Forgive them for they know not what they do?” (Luke 23:24) Was it sensible for Jesus to suffer and die for a world that would largely reject Him? (John 1:9-13) Really, can anyone think that the Father subjecting Jesus, in full knowledge of what was to happen, to all the degradation and suffering, was reasonable or sensible as the world thinks?
The life of Jesus on earth, not seen with spiritual eyes (Luke 24:31, Acts 26:18, Ephesians 1:18), is not reasonable and is insensible. So if God Himself, in the form of Jesus, loves all of us so unreasonably and so insensibly as to do all that He did for us, why should we want to be “sensible” in our faith? No, it was God’s love for us that the Father sent Jesus and that Jesus not only consented, but desired to come to suffer and die for us. It makes no sense unless God the Holy Spirit lives within and reveals the love and beauty of it all. (1 Corinthians 2:8-16)
Those who truly love Jesus and want to honor Him believe the Word of God and act on it. (James 1:22, Matthew 7:24) If we err in being zealous, so be it! Our desire is to please God! What does that mean? It means we need to completely love Him with all our hearts and live out His love that fills us and expresses His love to the world. (Mark 12:30-31) In doing that, we show the love of God that brought Jesus to us. The Love of God that makes no earthly sense but displays God’s indescribable love and wisdom. Let us continue to be fervent in our love and service for the Lord. Let the fire not be unattended, but fed and stoked to rage ever hotter and ever brighter. (Revelation 3:17-19) Let’s not be “sensible!” Let our passion for Christ be stoked by the great love of God so that we never become sensible but always be driven by His love. May we be unchanging insensible in our love and passion for Jesus. Let us be unchanging toward Him as He is unchanging toward us. Malachi 3:6a ““For I am the Lord, I do not change…”
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Your God.
Numbers 6:24-26 “The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.”