Personal Jesus

Remember that song? Actually I didn't until I came up with the title for this blog posting and then realized that I had heard that phrase before. I googled it and found the Depeche Mode and Johnny Cash versions on YouTube. The actual song may not be about Jesus specifically, but He IS a personal Jesus to anyone who wants Him to be.

Link to the song: Personal Jesus

What I was going to say about this is that Jesus is personal. He gets personal. He will not deal with me the same way He will with you. He will not ask the same things of me as He will of you either. There is a part in The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis, where Aslan tells the boy "I'm telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own." It's much the same with Jesus. He tells me something different and in a different way than He might tell you in order to get me to the next bend in the path on my Christian walk. Each person who has given their life to Christ has a different story to tell. It happens differently for everyone, even though the end result is essentially the same (eternity spent with God in heaven). It is like this because He made us and knows each one of us intimately. He understands that some people prefer old-fashioned hymns without instruments for their corporate worship times and others like something with a beat and lots of guitar. All the different types of churches are not wrong (unless they are not representing Jesus accurately and biblically), and He has given each one their own purpose and mission to fulfill.

I have been very open in my online writing about God calling me to wear a covering and using it as a place to discuss and process what I am learning about it. For me it has always been personal. Something between Him and myself. He may not ask it of everyone else or He may have different reasons or methods or times to wear it for those who have also been called to do this. All I know is that this is what He wants of me and it pleases Him that I am doing it in response to Him out of love (and not out of fear or thinking wrongly that it is what all good Christian married women should do).

He may be asking something of you right now or leading you down a new path. Don't worry if it seems strange or different than everyone else. Get personal with Jesus and reach out and touch Him and He will give you all the grace you need to follow through.

Be blessed...