Many people in the world today reject the claim that Jesus was a real historical figure. Others accept that he was a real man who walked the earth, but still think negatively of him. There are also many people who have a positive opinion concerning his identity, believing that Jesus was a teacher, a religious leader or even a prophet.
However, what if Jesus is far greater than all of these personas? What if the reality regarding his true identity is so much greater? What if it is so great that it almost blows our minds? What happens when we allow ourselves to see Jesus from a heavenly point of view?
What if Jesus is bigger than a man, a teacher or a prophet? What if he is bigger than our world, our solar system and our universe? What if Jesus was not merely a man once contained to a human body but is eternally someone so much more? What if Jesus is the one who contains all things, including the universe? What kind of impact does this have on us? What if his true nature and identity is so radical that it leaves us speechless?
The truth is radical: Jesus is the almighty creator of the universe. He is the source through which everything was created, the power that holds everything together and the reason everything was made in the first place. He is the Son of God.
Jesus is the one who for all of eternity has literally been holding the entire universe together. It is as if with his right hand he holds one end of the universe, and with his left hand he holds the other end—and in between is over 100 billion light years in space!
Light travels at 300,000 km per second; that roughly equates to a light year being over 9.4 trillion kilometres long. In an attempt to grasp how big the universe is, imagine the length of 94 trillion football fields joined together, and then times that distance by 100 billion! That is somewhere in the ballpark of how big our universe is—and Jesus is bigger than that because he is the one holding the whole universe together.
Although this is the vastness, strength and enormity that Jesus possesses, approximately 2,000 years ago he gave up his divine position in the heavens, humbled himself and became not only a man, but a single seed in the womb of a woman.
Jesus went from being quite literally the largest of all life forms, to the smallest of all seeds. Talk about humbling himself! Why did Jesus do that?
He did it to reveal the depths of God’s love for you.
A male sperm is quite literally one of the smallest living organisms in creation; one sperm is about 15 times smaller than the tip of a hair on your arm—it’s incredibly tiny! That was the size Jesus was willing to become in the womb of a woman. He became a little more than nothing, so that we could become everything in the eyes of God.
What no man could have ever imagined was the very thing God prepared for us; that the all powerful Son of God, who holds the whole universe together, would humble himself and come down into his creation as the tiniest of life forms, a single seed in the womb of a woman. He did this so that he could grow up amongst us, feel our burdens, experience our life, and reveal the truth about our heavenly Father.
The Son of God did not just reveal God’s love through words, but ultimately through his own body and sacrifice. He let mankind reject him, mock him, torture him, and nail him to a cross. It was after mankind did all of this, while he was still hanging upon the cross that he stared heavenward to his Father and said:
Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. Luke 23:34
How great is Christ’s love for us? It is so great that even after mankind rejected him, mocked him and ultimately killed him, his heart was still longing that we receive forgiveness from God. The cross is God’s way of revealing his true intentions for mankind.
God’s heart does not seek to condemn mankind; God’s heart is for reconciliation. He longs for all mankind to know him and be reconciled to him. Jesus was the one who made the way for this to be possible.
The cross is God’s testimony of his radical love for everyone one of us.
This was an exerpt from my new book: Look! The finished work of Jesus
Jesus is BIG!