Yes, Jesus

We enter through faith into what 

God has always wanted for us. 

We throw open our doors to God and 

discover at the same moment that He 

has already thrown open His door to us. 

Romans 5

Back to basics, back to simplicity.

We are saved through faith alone,

simply a complete trust in Jesus.

When we falter, when we fail,

when we are proud, when we are frail,

when we doubt, when we don't understand--

we utter a cry, a wail, a whisper:

I trust You Jesus.

The longer we have known Him,

the more challenging it can be

to continually say that.

Because sometimes we come 

face to face with a seeming contradiction

in our well formulated theology.

So, we push our theology aside, again,

and place our trust in Him.

It is not fraught with emotion,

nor is it dependent on performance.

It is a complete trust in Him.

Day after day, if we can learn to say,

"Yes, Jesus," from the moment we wake up

to the time we close our eyes at night,

we loose the power of His resurrection

into our dying lives.

Some days I want Him to prove my theology,

to have Him give me evidence that shows 

my theory about Him "right."

God will allow our experience with Him

to challenge our theory about Him.

Because in the end, it is about 

our relationship with Him.

He will allow a storm to come, 

right after we think we know something

about living in peace--

and sometimes we can't quote

another Scripture or fall back on

something we received in the past.

Because His peace and our turmoil

are currently at odds with one another.

But, we can fix our gaze on Him and say,

Jesus, I trust You.

Today, in this moment, I trust You.

By faith, which is me placing 

my trust in You, I say,

Yes, Jesus.

That's all the theology I need right now.

PC: Picture taken by my friend, Jewel Somers,

from her front window in Australia.