Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Misconceptions

You know at men's group we are studying the wild at heart book and something that comes up from time to time is that Jesus is perceived as the nice guy, the healer, and even our own perceptions of him may be the same. Jesus came to earth as our savior, he healed the sick made the blind see, raised the dead you get my point.
But tonight on my way home from band practice, I was listening to the radio and they were talking about how Jesus was not the wimpy kind of figure we make him out to be.
If you think about the big burly masculine guy you might think of muscles and callused hands rough face etc.. then think about the less masculine guys and maybe it would be a hair dresser or lawyer with nice hands, suits, manicures etc..
So think about this, if you were to shake Jesus hand would he not have the hands of a carpenter?
Callused and rough, would his handshake be firm and self confident?
You could almost consider him a gentle Giant!
Now that's something to think about!

1 comment:

Swinging Sammy said...

Jay, you're back!!!