Everything Jesus

"He is on every page."

THE HUMAN BODY is an intricate masterpiece. Crafted by the hand of God, no effort of man can duplicate its life processes. We can’t formulate DNA, can’t create blood, nor bone marrow. Though we can replace organs with those of other people, who willingly give them, we can’t make organs, can only repair them to a point, and can’t force them to work properly. Medical knowledge is limited in what it can do to heal.

There is no other way to create a baby than a father’s genetic material and a mother’s egg. We can seek medically to have them join and a fetus, a baby, to come into being. Gut it only happens in the way God set it in motion. No one can carry a baby to term but the woman’s body. There is no substitute for her. And no way to choose that child’s appearance or knowledge. Those are up to God.

The human body is unfathomable in its depth. Of the brain, we have limited understanding and only a few ways to cause it to heal. But the healing itself, what causes it to heal, and its connection with the mind, is beyond man. We don’t yet know how to heal mental illness or deficiencies. God can. God will and delights to do so. Men have only guesses and equations without walls.

Jesus is the Word, the sword of the Spirit, which contains all knowledge. Colossians 1 says, “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist (Verses 16-17).” As intricate as the human body is, as little as man truly knows about it, so is this book we hold and cherish. And it is Jesus. He is on every page, not just prophesied or lived or resurrected, but as the revelation contained in it. He is its life, its depth, and though we may read it 100 times, 1,000 times, or 1 million, there is still more to be found there.

A piece of 3D art was made of individual matching items, which looked at closely, were just that, something simple and known. But from a distance, filling the room, all of them hung in their particular place, formed one person’s vision of Jesus. From Genesis to Revelation, each word, each sentence, each individual paragraph, and all the chapters and verses, in the order they were written and displayed, are a continual, intricate picture of Jesus. Separately, they are DNA, molecules, skin cells, and organs, which only God could form. We, in the church, have tried to assemble Jesus from our chosen pieces, leaving out the Jewish ones, and the covenant ones, and other bits and pieces that we’ve misunderstood and misapplied. Instead of a whole man, formed Adam from the soil, instead of an infant who grew in the womb of Mary, simply because God can, we have hands without feet, and a heart minus certain veins. Instead of seeking Moshiach, God in human flesh, we hold pages which looked at from our point-of-view are just paper.

Matthew 7 tells a story within the stories. I see these patterns in the gospels a lot, and it is God’s doing. But in Matthew 7, there is a list of objects which show a picture of the plan of God. It begins with THE BEAM. THE DOOR follows. THE FATHER is mentioned next, after Him, A GATE, A TREE, A HOUSE, and A ROCK. Matthew, chapter 8, gives a different picture from the stories in it. What we see there is chaos and Jesus making order of it. There are devils, beings He created, now fallen and causing torment, the human body He created, now riddled with sickness and disease. We find the atmosphere of a storm and two men, possessed of devils, exceeding fierce, who prevent people from passing there. There is a herd of swine, running violently down a steep place into the sea. And Jesus’ words, midway, that describe them: “Let the dead bury their dead.” These chapters are two examples. There are an infinite number of others.

Because Jesus is the Word. All of it. He is an infinite supply of revelation of Truth that we can never exhaust nor fully comprehend. But what a blessing that God in heaven, our loving Abba, gave it all to us. Gave all of Him to us. And how foolish to pick-and-choose what we like and dislike of it. The Jews know covenant. We don’t. We need their trust in God. We know redemption more completely but are wrong in how we share it with them. I’ve heard them quote the letters of Paul, though they’ve never read them. How is that possible? It’s possible because Jesus is Exodus 7, Psalm 23, and Romans 8. He is Leviticus and the gospel of John. He is Isaiah and Daniel, and John’s Revelation. Within each book is a fountain of Truth about Him that forms His body, that He created. And it’s only complete when we see the whole. And we only see the whole in the Spirit, who is Christ. He teaches us all things, bringing to our remembrance everything Jesus. Elohim. Adonai. Jehovah. Hashem. Prince of Peace. Good Shepherd. Lamb of God. King of Israel. King of Kings.

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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