Know Nothing Except Christ

1 Corinthians 2:2
For I resolved to know nothing ...except Jesus Christ and him crucified.


Anytime my husband and I have any sort of spiritual discussion either with or around our daughter, she always starts to contend (rather loudly, I might add), "No, Jesus died on the cross! And He had blood, and He had ou-ies!" Sometimes she’ll even throw in a "He needs a band-aid." Chris and I get a kick out of it because once she gets started neither of us can get a word in edge-wise - she just gets louder and louder. One day I commented, "It all goes back to Jesus on the cross doesn’t it?" I was joking, but in a completely serious tone, he turned to me and said, "Well, yeah, it does." We were quiet the rest of the drive home.

I suppose that’s why God told us we need to become like children. They have such a simple, beautiful and uncomplicated understanding of it all. Regann, for example doesn’t try to figure out why, or how it all works - she doesn’t brain through all the theology or worry about all the minor details. She simply knows that Jesus died on the cross for her, and that He then came back to life, all so we could be His best friend, and He could be ours. Oh, that we could take this thing we tend to make so complicated, and just make it simple and beautiful again. Regann gets upset every time she sees a picture of Jesus marred, and bloody. She cries out "Oh, they’re hurting Him! I just want my Jesus!!" She feels the pain, and accepts the sacrifice.

Now, I do not believe that she has given her life to Him in salvation, but I don’t think that’s a necessary step, right now. I pray that she’ll answer when He comes knocking. For now, I just try to look at it all through her eyes, and allow God to continue to teach me through this tender 3-year-old.

Through all of this, I have begun to simply "know Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." To allow it to fall fresh, and new on me each day. To accept it in faith, not trying to understand it, because I really don’t think we fully can - the Bible has told us as much (check out Romans 11:33-36). I have learned that it all comes back to the cross. If I allow the glory of the cross to shine on any and every situation, I will see them differently than I do in the everyday light I tend to use when examining my life. With the cross in my constant vision, all things take on a different hue, and color. Really, life becomes so much more beautiful.