The Center of One

Its easy to lose sight of who you are as you live in this world. If you have no monument to point to--no significant evidence of the work of your hands--so that when someone asks you about yourself, you just point and say "see, look there and you will get a good idea of who I am".
Sometimes it can be overwhelming to live in a world where it seems that everyone else has found their niche--their "center of gravity" that their lives revolve around, but you are still searching, still trying to understand who you, all the while hiding from everyone else that you are really struggling to make it because your "center" is still a mystery to you.

Then I look at Jesus.

He left no monuments. He didn't build immense physical structures that he could point to and say "if you want to get an idea of who I am then just look over there at what I built and you will get a good understanding." No. In fact the only thing that Jesus left behind was an idea--the thought that tells people that what you see is not really the fullest expression of what is really real. The notion that life as you now know it is really a twisted version of what it could be--of what it will be once again.

He says: "it might be hard to believe but I promise you that it's coming--it really is."

The thing that blows me away is that Jesus' center of gravity was found in nothing else but what he found inside himself--he was so at peace in knowing that his entire identity was found in his relationship with his heavenly Father that he didn't feel the need to point to anything outside himself in order to identify himself to others.

Jesus was the center of one.

"I am the way,the truth, and the life.". How can anyone say that and not have such a deep awareness of who they are? Not once do we see a picture of Jesus clamouring after other people in a desperate attempt to woo them for the sake of His ego!

What a man--what a God.

My Jesus--today, look upon us with compassion and mercy as we try to find who we are. We look in all the wrong places. We strive and hide and build and at the end of the day we are empty and lost, with no sincere and deep peace. Would you please reveal to us who we are in YOU, and nothing else. May this transform us and change us from the inside out.

Jesus, be our center...

BT
Brian M Tysdal
Lead Pastor
Rock of Ages Church
Saskatoon Sask.
374-1707 (Church)
291-3308 (Cel)
pastorl.therock@sasktel.net