Knowing God

Colorado Springs, Colorado

I don't know anything about Mozart. I've avoided the movie "Amadeus" like the plague. What I do know is that this is a large picture of Mozart that was painted on the side of a building in Colorado Springs.

If we were to plaster a Jesus picture on this wall, many people would have the same reaction I do to Mozart. We can, of course, do a quick Google search and find out what the "never-lying" internet says about Jesus but we really still don't know him simply by a picture.

A true experience of love in the Christian community is an experience of Christ. Love is a gift of God given in a manger, embraced by a nursing mom, carried to a foreign country, baptized in a river, crucified on a cross, buried in a grave and raised from the dead.

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God." 1 John 4:7 English Standard Version

This isn't trite love that looks at its watch to see if it is convenient to love another person. This is the love that answers the phone at 2 in the morning, sits with a friend in the waiting room sticking around for news from the surgeon and is willing to unabashedly weep with the widow.

When we have been "there" in the name of Christ, we know love. And to know such love is to know God.

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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012-2014 Douglas P. Brauner.  ARR.