How Am I Known By Jesus?

Someone who was asked "Who Is Jesus To You" countered with this question "How Am I Known By Jesus?" I invite you to answer that one too, please.


My response:

He knows me in my unexpurgated, unedited draft. There is no hiding anything from Him. Surely, He sees through every mask I might consider putting on which I don't like to do anyway. He sees me at my ugliest: mean, petty, cruel, vain, proud, selfish, lazy, show-offy, manipulative, and even those flaws I have not even admitted to myself yet.

My students used to say that I was color-blind. I think Jesus is sin-blind. Because He has washed away our sins with His own blood, He doesn't see them anymore in His mercy. He sees me as He meant me to be and by so doing invites me to be all that and encourages me every inch of the way. When I fall, which is often, He simply picks me up, dusts me off, and sends me on my way again.

He sees all the wonderful things I can be and am sometimes and totally delights in me! Knowing myself as I do I find it hard to fathom how He can do that. I exasperate myself. But I find that if I look at myself with His eyes I am able to actually enjoy myself. And even praise and thank God for me!

I love the freedom to be who I am at any given moment knowing that I don't have to be, act or think in any particular way for Him to love me. I love being able to tell Him my darkest thoughts and most unworthy feelings without having to pretend I don't have them. I am the child whom he holds close to Him and listens to with complete attention. And affection.

It is such a happy grace to be loved unmitigatedly, totally, unconditionally, non-stop, tenderly, dellghtedly, unequivocally, without judgment. How I would love to be able to love like that!