Jesus: The Man of My Dreams

I had coaching tonight and Sarah said in her Beth Moore study, Beth said that it was hard for her to think about Jesus, the man of her dreams, beaten and nailed to a cross, and then put in a tomb, and not able to do anything about it. Sarah then mentioned how she had never looked at Jesus that way; as the man of her dreams. I realized I hadn't either.

Jesus, The Man of My Dreams. He should be the only one I say that about, yet I only apply that phrase; Man of My Dreams; to my husband. Honestly, my husband can't even be the man of my dreams, because when you think about it, in your dreams, that man is the picture of perfection. He looks and acts exactly the way you want him to. He does everything right away when you ask, he does anything for you without complaing; waits on you hand and foot. That isn't my husband, I wish it was, but my husband is human, he is a sinner, so that isn't him. There are days he is some of those, but there are more days that he isn't. But Jesus is all of those.

Jesus would be all those things that I listed if he was a being that I could touch right now. But he is still those even though I can't see him. I just never think of him that way or trust him in that way. How messed up is that? My savior, the one who bled and died on a cross for my sins, is the man of my dreams who would wait on me hand and foot! But I don't think of him that way.

How different would my life be if I thought of him that way? How differently would I approach my quiet time? I would probably have more quiet time! Wouldn't you? When you are dating someone or married to someone, you want to spend as much time as possible with them and get to know them better and just be in their presence, yet I do not approach God that way. I more approach him as a chore to mark off my list... Disgusting I know!

JESUS, THE MAN OF MY DREAMS... I need to get up every morning and remind myself of that. That if he is truly the man of my dreams, why am I not longing to know everything about him and to just be in his presence? I should be devoting so much more of myself to him.

Jesus, the Man of My Dreams... It's so romantic. It's so true. It's how I need to live each and every day.