Do I know you? Or do I know about you?
Have I clicked the like button? Or have I engaged in intimate conversation?
Can I recite the rules? Or have I experienced a life of change?
Am I a fan? Or a brother?
One of the hallmarks of a full on, complete follower of Jesus, is the desire to know Him intimately. If we can’t identify where Jesus has intersected our life experience, then we are deluding ourselves in believing we have an actual, real, living relationship with Him. Much of what we call relationship with Jesus is really fandom. We have become Jesus fans. We’ve clicked the “like” button. But we know very little of experiencing Jesus in the reality of our lives.
Perhaps we’ve download the faith app. Expending the effort to learn His likes and dislikes, attempting to find out what He’s all about and how He wants people to live. Unfortunately it’s possible to know about Jesus, even attempt to live the way He taught us to live and still have no real connection with Him. Are we just a fan, following a celebrity we have never really met? Do we talk about Him, but never experience the reality of interacting with him?
Jesus called me a brother, the Father called me a son, have I lived in the experience of this truth?
