I have been thinking about who Jesus is to me. Who is He? Why would He want to know me? Why does He want a relationship with me? I was listening to a song that inspired the title of this blog, “All I am, for all You are.” It made me think about all that I am. All of my accomplishments, my personality, my desires, and the things that God has given me. Then thinking about Jesus, and the idea that He was willing to trade all that He is, for all that I am. I looked in the Bible for my answers and this is what I found.
Revelation 1:12-18
Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength. When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
All Jesus is is an amazing sight! We will one day see Jesus in this terrifying yet wonderful way that John describes here. We know that John who wrote the book of revelation was also the disciple called the one that Jesus loved. This was the same John that came and laid on Jesus chest at the last supper and called himself friend of the savior. Yet when John sees the man that was his friend on earth, John falls at Jesus’ feet as if dead. He is so overcome with the glory that Jesus now dwells in it causes John to be full of fear. The Jesus that John sees in this passage is now in his full glory. And as you read this right now Jesus is in heaven in the glory that He won on the cross and will be that way forever. “All I am, for all you are.” All that Jesus is. He is a king, he is the God-man, He is the creator of existence itself, but most importantly He was willing to be our sacrifice.
He is the living one! He died! And He is alive forevermore! The grave could not conquer the one who loved. How amazing! We have such an awesome savior, and we should long to be in Jesus’ holy presence. But in our current state we would do the same thing John did here, fall as if dead in the presence of God. We are not worthy to be in His presence, so He came to us in the form of a man. He came to reclaim us, because He loves us so much.
But why would someone so amazing die for us? What are we to Him? These verses helped me answer the question of all I am.
Ephesians 2:1-7
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
“All I am, for all You are.”
What are you and I? All I am? I am dead, of this world, a son of disobedience, and a child of wrath. Jesus the mighty king of glory and peace, died the death of the cross, so that we could be alive, apart of His kingdom, His son, and so that we can have peace in Him. We are not worth saving, we are someone who hated the one who saved us and served our own desires. We were with His enemy yet He still died for us. My sin was what put Jesus on the cross, it was my actions that held Him there. On the cross with nails in His hands and feet, a spear in His side, and a crown of thorns for the one who loved us.
Nothing else matters. Only the glory of the one who saved us and our worship that we can offer to Him. All that we were able to do was accept His mercy. We took no part in His victory and yet He still calls us sons. He not only made us a part of His family but He adopted these disobedient children and made us whole.
So let us live lives that reflect the fact that we have been bought not with money, but with blood. Not by just anyone but by the one who has a two edged sword in His mouth, and fire in His eyes. The blood of a king. Yet He was willing to lay down His life for you. Do we give Him the honor that He deserves? Do we even know who this King is? Do you truly know the love of the one who bought you? Or are you still dead? To put it on a scale is to see how the purchase of us is not a good purchase, we are not precious in anyway. Yet Jesus sees us and chose to love and purchase us with His blood and death on the cross. All I am is worthless, all He is is indescribable love. May He be praised forever.
