Sunday, 12 July 2009

Jesus is my boyfriend?

Last week the Spring Harvest Live 2009 CD dropped through our door, and we've had a nice time listening to what passes for new worship music in church these days.
The bonus track on CD 2 is 'Jesus Is My Best Friend' by Vicky Beeching, which Jessica wittily mocks by singing "Jesus is my boyfriend" - now it is pretty cheesy - take verse 1: 'When the sun is shining and I go out to play, I'm so glad that Jesus walks with me all day'.
Now excuse me while I clean up my vomit.

That done, I think there's a more important message in here - for those of you who have been (un)lucky enough to have a boyfriend / girlfriend, you'll know that in the first few weeks of your relationship, you don't ever want to be apart from them, and that nothing else in the world matters - not even Geography coursework.
So you know where I'm going from here - having this view of Jesus would be utterly amazing, if we could sustain through the years. If we all wanted to spend as much time as possible with Jesus, and pored over every word he wrote for us, we would be true imitators of Christ - but how does this work out in real life?
Paul says, in his first letter to the Thessalonians, that we "have been taught by God to love each other". Does the love we profess for Jesus spill out of us for all to see, or do we keep it bottled up, rationing it for those we really like, or for that boy / girl you rather like...?

So here's the challenge - love Jesus, and his word, like you would a new boy/girlfriend, and see just how deep your relationship with him becomes.

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