 He was a Guy
you could count on—a solid Guy—a Guy you could trust. A humble, gentle Guy
who would stop everything He was doing to care for you, no matter how dirty or messed up
you happened to be. A heroic Guy who would stand up for you no matter how many stood
against you. A giving, selfless Guy who would risk everything for you no matter the
personal cost. An honest Guy who told it like it was and got killed for it.
Simply put, the greatest Guy you’d ever want to meet—this Guy named
Jesus.
One
huge discovery I made was how blindingly different a Man He was from us. But we
could examine any day or encounter of Jesus’ life and see the same things over and
over: acts of giving, humility, care, integrity, sacrifice.
Acts of superhuman selflessness, the tiniest of which, aside from causing the blind to see
and the lame to walk, screamed to all who looked on, "This is
God!" For there’s no way such wholeness of
character, such totality of love, could possibly be that of a mere man.
All deity aside, this Jesus was a Man such as never walked the
planet before or since, a Man of such mountainous character, such mind-blowing integrity,
such breathtaking heroism, there are just no words to do Him justice. So, in my
unpoetic manner, all I can come up with to say is, "What a
Guy!"
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Text and photo taken
from
In the Footsteps
of Jesus,
by Bruce Marchiano
(p. 139, 147, 150).
In Footsteps, Bruce takes readers on an intimate journey into
the life of Christ as he describes the Jesus of joy he discovered
while immersed in filming The Visual Bible™'s "Matthew."
In the Footsteps of
Jesus. Copyright © 1997 by Bruce Marchiano. Published by Harvest House
Publishers, Eugene, Oregon 97402 and Visual
Entertainment, Dallas, Texas 75248. Used on www.LoveLavished.org
by permission.
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