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To My Facebook Brothers and Sisters in Christ….

So what’s so hard about speaking the name of Jesus? Imagine if you will….

You just arrived in heaven. Got it? You notice Jesus off in the distance and say, “Look everybody! That looks like God! I think God is coming to see us! Oh yes, God is coming! I will see God for the very first time!” No, no, no! You will say, “Look everybody! That looks like Jesus! I think Jesus is coming to see us! Oh yes, Jesus is coming! I will see Jesus for the very first time!”

When you finally see Jesus face to face will you say, “Oh wonderful God! It’s so good to finally see You, God! Thank You God for the cross! And thank You God for the crown of thorns and the Roman whip!”? Or will you say, “Oh wonderful Jesus! It’s so good to finally see You, Jesus! Thank You Jesus for the cross! And thank You Jesus for the crown of thorns and the Roman whip!”? So-o-o-o….

If it’s going to be “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!” up there, why is it “God, God, God!” down here? What is it about “the name which is above every name” that you find disconcerting? I think I know….

Speaking the name of Jesus draws one closer to Jesus. And that’s not good for the one wanting to preserve life-as-is. A distant Jesus is no threat to the way we live and the relationship we have with others.

In almost every christian there is a YES and a NO…. a “YES Jesus, I want more of You” and a “NO Jesus, I don’t want more of You”. Relationally speaking, you have the exact amount of Jesus you desire to have. If you wanted more you would have more. If you wanted less you would have less.

Before you became “born again” you actually wanted Christ. Yes, before. There was within you a YES to Jesus. But your NO to Jesus surpassed the YES. Got it? The day your YES (finally!) surpassed your NO was the day you surrendered to His lordship, the day you embraced Him as Saviour.

Now that you are His, there is still the warfare of YES vs. NO. You want more of Jesus and you also don’t want more of Jesus. It’s hard to admit, but there really is a pernicious NO within.

Could that explain why you speak “God, God, God” instead of “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus”? And why most evangelicals (etcetera) rarely speak Christ? Something to think about?