WHAT IS SO GREAT ABOUT JESUS
What is so great about Jesus is not that He came to impress the strong, but that He came to rescue the weak. He did not arrive with a sword in His hand or a crown on His head, but with compassion in His heart and mercy on His lips. He touched lepers, welcomed children, forgave sinners, and spoke hope to the forgotten—showing us what God is truly like (John 1:14).
Jesus is great because He tells us the truth about God without distortion. When we look at Him, we are not guessing about God’s character; we are seeing it clearly. “He who has seen Me has seen the Father” (John 14:9). In Jesus, God is not distant or harsh, but near, gentle, and full of grace—slow to condemn and quick to heal.
Jesus is great because He loved without limits. He did not love people once they were cleaned up; He loved them while they were still broken. “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). His love does not fluctuate with our performance; it flows from His nature.
Jesus is great because He forgives completely. He does not remind us daily of our failures or hold our past over our heads. “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us” (Psalm 103:12). At the cross, Jesus dealt with sin once and for all, and in His resurrection He offers us new life without shame (Colossians 2:13–14).
Jesus is great because He is alive. Christianity is not centered on a memory, a rulebook, or a moral system, but on a living Savior. “I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore” (Revelation 1:18). He walks with us now, strengthens us now, and carries us when we are too tired to walk.
And finally, Jesus is great because He is enough. Enough for our guilt, enough for our fears, enough for our future. He does not merely improve our lives—He becomes our life (Colossians 3:4). To know Jesus is to know peace, hope, and love that will never let us go.
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Lord Jesus, thank You for being more than we could ever ask for—gentle, forgiving, and alive; teach our hearts to rest in who You are. Amen.
BDD
