Lord Jesus,
You have revealed God in yourself, to all of us.
All God's attributes heard only by ears were witnessed in Your person.
All what mankind was longing to know about Your nature was revealed to them in Your being
We were yearning to know God's thoughts towards us, we were all striving to know, each in his status, the ill, the hurt, the wronged, the sinner… and we did know it… We touched it through Your words to the Samaritan woman, The Canaanite, and the little children… The kind touches of Your hands, your abundant affection for the leprotic, the paralyzed, the deaf, and the blind. We delighted in The Lord because of what we sensed as He was YOU!
Each of us was wondering about Your feeling towards a man blind from birth; so we knew & we sensed God's feeling through Your loving words & your caressing hands on the blind's eyes.
We were questioning in a cautious timidity like children:- Would YOU have an authority over Stormy winds & turbulent waves? So when YOU have rebuked the wind & calmed the sea with Your word of authority, we delighted in Your Authority & power biased to our nature in YOU.
We doubted: Would God take care of a person who is lost in a desert, thirsty & hungry? So when YOU have fed in abundance the crowd in the desert with 5 loves of bread & the 2 small fish. We trusted God's compassion by Your compassion, and so God's willing towards us were represented in Your willing towards us.
We asked: Are God's scales like Man's scales? Would the sinner being expelled by people is repeatedly expelled by God? When YOU have told the Women caught in adultery: Go in peace I do not convict you. We were reassured that You are God & not human like us. YOU see what we cannot see & adjudicate with higher judgments than our perception. So we rejoiced in The Lord who has a compassion for us more than our own race.
Death authority over us was in discord with God's authority, shaking our faith, making us terrified. But when YOU have raised the dead from his tomb after being in the tomb for four days. YOU have reinforced our faith in God's authority. We believed it is Your very same authority , hence Death power retreated in our hearts.
After YOU have emptied yourself from the glory of Your divinity, we became unable to gauge God's attributes in YOU :-. In His love, Compassion, docility, humbleness moreover, His power, Authority, examining knowledge across all time & all man's concealment.
How then would we describe YOU before YOU deliberately relinquished Your glory? Or even after YOU have accomplished Your incarnation message & sat on Your throne of Glory.
Unquestionably, only one thing becomes apparent to us; If God whom no body saw is like YOU, as we realize how Good He is! How a fortiori we love Him from all the heart, the mind, the thought & the power!
If God only can open the eyes of the blind & raise the dead, so truly & truthfully YOU are The Lord.
If God only can forgive the sins of the entire world & wipe away the wrongdoings of the mankind, & lift its weight from the heart and the conscience, planting instead holiness & completeness; so for much stronger reason this prove YOU are The Lord.
My Lord Jesus Christ
YOU alone were God's greatest verb, YOU have carried His greatest attributes & operated His supreme deeds. Moreover, YOU have practiced His love towards us & fulfilled His authority
My Lord Jesus Christ
One last word I have to tell you, we have found God in YOU. You and no-one else are worthy not only to possess our hearts but the hearts of the entire world.
Glory be to God for ever & ever Amen!
This excerpt of the sermon was kindly presented by Mr. Romany Fahim . May God reward him.
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