Hmmm. It makes me wander what word can suit best about that blank sentence. You can add any single word or phrase that best describes who He is to you. Besides, there's no such word as a wrong answer when you fill it.
But at this point, let me share to you the things that I've contemplated as I look out for the word that will really describe who He is to me.
My co-volunteer worker named Viva Lijauco is a part of the production team in our church at Alabang New Life Christian Center. There was this time when he and I planned to write on a graffiti wall on our youth conference last 2012. To represent the production team, he gave me a sentence that will describe the things that the team does and I wrote it big on the wall. It says, "We make all things happen."
As we serve and in the line of ministry we are serving, truly, we are expected to do the expected. All members of the team knows that. The needs must be met, the team should have a sufficient supply of personnel every service, and the demands must be answered.
Thus, as we serve, we transpire something. All that must be expected in our minds to happen must come to pass. And it happens. And it is a great relief for our pastors and in our leaders, aside from the ushers.
Pondering these things in my mind brought me to my understanding what serving is. Aside from my background in life that can be related in the line of serving, it affirms me the right perspective and the right reason why do I serve.
Serving requires something. It requires time, effort, and energy. And it has only one goal to achieve. It is to transpire something. And servants play a crucial role to make it happen. Small or big. And when it happens, even though sometimes unnoticed, gives a good result and creates an impact that resounds to eternity.
A best example of that is Jesus.
When the Father in heaven had planned to regain His people and remove the distance that was created because of sin, Jesus, agreeing with God, willingly respond to do what the Father wants. He served what the Father needs.
When He landed here, became matured, and reached His appointed time to minister to others, He became an answer to the needy. And take note, He answered every need. Jesus served them. And what the Father wants to happen to redeem us back to Him, Jesus transpired it on the cross.
If Jesus had made it transpired the greatest, the grandest (and the most-very-extra-super-duper-ever) thing that the Creator wants to happen in redeeming the humanity into its eternal damnation, being recorded in the history of the universe, how can't He in all His fullness, make our desires, dreams, plans, ambitions, that we want to happen in our lives, through His consuming, unending, unfailing, and unflinching love for us, will make it come to pass?
Wait. The whistle has blown at this moment. Let us be guided correctly. We as persons should make our lives be directed by His Spirit and make ourselves be dependent on Him always. There must be a unified desire between you and Jesus making Him the Lord and savior of your life. The manifestations of our desires in life are not like noodles that you can cook in three minutes and eat it instantly. What I mean is that, as He makes it come to pass, you know that you have the same direction as His, knowing that it is His will, it is His want, and His way. Assured that you'll not be also digressed.
Jesus is the exact representation of being a servant. A strong evidence of that is found in Mark 10:45. And I want to focus more at the end part of serving. After an individual accomplishes the duty of being a servant because the ones who commanded to do such thing believes in the capacity and the capability of the one who serves, no doubt, he or she can make it happen.
This life has made me so very disappointed since I've realized how grave it is to live in this reality. Dreams were popped up, plans were set aside, desires that were vanished due to certain circumstances and reasons that I've seriously considered. But as I believe and soak myself in the finished work, capacity, capability, and the fullness of what Jesus can do to me, things are returning back to its place again. As I put my trust in Him, I'm confident that He will make things in my life that I want to happen in my life, come into transpiration. 'Coz if I'll gonna look on my strength, I cannot make it on my own.
Which leads me to name this to Him.
Jesus Is My Transpirer.
He will be the transpirer of all my hopes, dreams, plans and prayers in my life. Not only that He will be the transpirer. He will be the reason why all of it will be transpired. For He makes all things come to pass. Just as how our leaders in our church counts and believes on us as being transpirers, as I put it, I count on Jesus that makes all things come to pass.
Take note again. Jesus is God and man that chose to serve and meet all the needs of everyone who calls upon Him. He is supposed to stay at His throne forever yet He decides to be a servant of all. Not only that. A transpirer of all. It's only because He loves us. Period. I don't know if a human mind can take that. But that's how it is. What a humble and loving Jesus we have.
That's why He deserves our focus, praise, and thanks.
And it applies to everyone of us who hopes in Him to make our dreams and desires that we want to happen which lies in each of us.
The bell now rings. Sharing to you my thoughts, like at every boxing event after twelve rounds, ends at this point. My idea has now conveyed. The boxing is finished. :)
How about you? You can fill it. And describe who He is to you. Let me borrow a question that Judah Smith posted at the back cover of his book as I end.
Jesus Is _______.
How would you finish that sentence?
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As you fill that out, let it be alive in you.
And to those who want to know more about this thing, please visit the website
http:www.jesusis-ph.org/ and fill the blank there.
To God be the glory. : )
