...A curious look filled her grandma's features. "You know what the problem is with the world today?"
Mary smiled. She loved when her grandma was like this, when she was able to sum up all the godly wisdom of a lifetime and put it into a sentence or two. "what's the problem, Grandma?"
"People want to make Jesus into some Gandhi orRambo figure. A good teacher or a strong leader." She shook her head, and her eyes shone as they hadn't in years. "you know why Jesus had the power to resucue you, Mary Madison?"
Mary grinned. She knew, but she waited for her grandma's answer anyway.
"Because--" Grandma Peggy jabbed her bony finger in the air for emphasis--"Jesus is God Almighty. He is divine. " Her energy dropped off a bit. "The world can only be rescued by a divine power."
(from Karen Kingsbury's Divine)

Jesus is real! He is all powerful and the implications of the cross are priceless. May we never be so deceived as to think we can live life on our own, heal ourselves, make decisions in life, apart from Him.

THIS IS OUR HOPE! There is life and freedom in hoping and trusting in a divine Saviour. That which we cannot see with our eyes- His God-ness, His power, His life living in and through us by faith. We can so sense it- something in me that drives me- something that falls on me and changes me- what is it? Not my power, but HIS! Somehow it's real because I would not be in the place today without HIM.

Jesus is DIVINE!

9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: 10 If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!
Life is good because HE makes it that way... HE illuminates... He puts the majesty into creation and the created (us) by His power! THAT's what stirs our hearts.

And somehow an indescribable joy that I could NEVER manufacture on my own comes over me. I might explode or I might just simply praise my Savior. It's not the things that make life good, it's LIFE, the person of Jesus, that IS good!

Psalm 8
1 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise [b] because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? (how in the world do we get to enjoy the things of you, or hear and understand them???!!! only by your grace. only because of what you've done on our behalf)
5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings [c] and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:
7 all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!