God on his knees

I used to think Keith Richards was radical until I encountered Jesus.

I tell you why I like Jesus so much, because Jesus had a radical idea about God. His ideas were so radical that the leading religious of folks of his day thought he was crazy, arrogant, and out of control. He intentionally broke the law and did things for people who were considered outsiders. He partied with drunks, prostitutes, tax collects and he managed to piss-off a bunch of religious folks who thought they had control of God.

He had a neat way of talking to people about God. Folks who did not understand religious jargon.

He said God is like a woman who had lost a coin… her money… her most valuable possession. She got down on her knees and entered into the dirt and muck and searched the filth and the dirt of her floor until she found her valuable coin and when she did… she rejoiced.

Think about it; that is the nature of God according to Jesus. God so seeks us in love because we are so valuable that God get on his knees and seeks us in the dirtiest filthiest places of our lives.

God on his knees in the slime, slush, slop, sludge, soil, soot, and smut of our messy lives seeking, searching, scouting for my life… my heart… my soul.

We are God’s most valuable, inestimable, and precious possessions. And God seeks us until we are found.

When God finds us, God rejoices.
Did your hear that? It is God who rejoices, just like the lady who discovered he lost coin.

That’s why I like Jesus. He has a radical idea about God. A God who gets on his knees.