NEXT

Through Kevin Deyoung’s message, the Holy Spirit did a couple things in me: 1. Stirred my fear and awe of who Jesus really is. And, 2. Built my faith and desire for His Word.

Toward the end of Kevin DeYoung’s message, Kevin mentioned the possibility of becoming “inoculated to Christ.” We can have just enough of Christianity that Jesus seems less than He really is. And we can get used to that.  So often, because of my sinful heart, I can just get used to Christ. He becomes old hat.

But in Kevin’s message walking through Luke 8:26-39 he showed us the real Christ: the Creator, the demon-kicker-outer, the gracious healer and life-giver. As the message progressed, the Holy Spirit continued to show me more of how amazing Christ is, and how worthy He is of my fear, reverence and awe. And that that’s a key issue in my heart: I need to be constantly un-inoculated to Christ by seeing Him as He is.

God faithfully reminded me through Kevin’s message that the same God that Created the earth and owns a storm, who could really freak me out with his power, who is willing and able to heal me and raise my soul from the dead, is the same Christ I can see every day when I read His Word. The Holy Spirit stirred my faith, awe, reverence and fear in this Christ. Then He slammed me with the truth that God is in His Word, eager to reveal himself to me more and more, and make me tremble at who He is.  And that excites me to dig into God’s word with more faith and expectation.

Like the disciples in the boat freaking out because of the storm in Luke 8, I don’t fix my problems (i.e. deadly storm) by looking at my circumstances or my sin. Christ, Lord of Creation must be my focus. I must look to HIM! And since “Jesus also suffered once, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring us to God,” (1 Peter 3:18) I know that he will also continue to give us more of Himself in His Word.

So that’s where I want to stay, beholding the crazy-powerful, amazing Christ in His Word.