What is Jesus like?

The bible says Jesus left the riches of heaven to be born a man. To know exactly what it was like to be you and me. To be acquainted with sorrow and grief, to be an outcast, to be used and abused. I had no idea what Jesus was really like. I wasn’t raised in a church, I don’t know their songs or when to stand or sit, I don’t know nothing much about church. But I read the bible myself to see.

I didn’t read it to get smart, or figure out how to do stuff in church, I read it to see what Jesus was like. Did He yell at people? did He ever laugh? I read it like it was a play on stage, Jesus enters stage left, speaks to scandalous woman at a well, on her way to her sixth husband. And He wasn’t mad! He was kind and helpful.

When Jesus first began his ministry He went to the local church and He read this: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are (bound), To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” Luke 4:18-19

Those people got so mad they tried to throw Him off a cliff but He passed through the midst of them and went on His way. So He went out and called some scruffy guys and said follow Me. He went out to the common people and preached to them, He healed them, He comforted them, He gave them free food.

Jesus never built a single church building when He walked on the earth. People say He was a carpenter, so He could have done that!

Jesus did say “For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten son..”, but He also said the next line which so many forget- “He didn’t come to condemn the world but to save it!”

While Jesus was out preaching how God loved people so much, Those pharisees from the church kept poppin up here and there.

One time they came out and started saying: those boys of yours! It’s the sabbath and their out here pickin corn and eatin it!

Jesus said to those pharisees:
“And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:  Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.” Mark 2:27-28

another time they said: Look who He’s hanging out with! those people are sinners!
“And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?” Mark 2:16

…and Jesus’ disciples aren’t fasting and praying!
“And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?” Mark 2:18

another thing that really bugged those pharisees: and they don’t wash their hands before they eat!!
“Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.” Mark 7:1-2

Jesus defended them every time, which really made the pharisees mad.

God is love and I always wondered where to find love. Love is the most important thing everyone seeks for it. I wrote a paraphrase of a part of the scriptures, 1Cor 13:4-8. (I think God is ok with me doing it):

This is what it says in 1Corinthians 13:4-8~

Love suffereth long, and is kind; Love envieth not; Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Does not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth…

And then it occurred to me that that perfectly describes Jesus!

Jesus suffereth long, and is kind; Jesus envieth not; Jesus vaunteth not Himself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave Himself unseemly, seeketh not His own, He is not easily provoked, He thinketh no evil; He rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; He beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Jesus never fails.

This Love is the Love of God, the Love that God has promised and He will never leave us or forsake us.