Day Ninety-Seven

JESUS IS BRAVE

Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True.

—REVELATION 19:11 ESV

Did you just read this verse? That hasn’t happened yet. You realize that, right? Jesus is coming back, not as the baby in the humble manger, but as the mighty King of kings and Lord of lords.

Baby Jesus was brave. But Baby Jesus was here on a mission to save us from our sin. He’s already done that good work. He’s already died and resurrected.

Jesus is still alive and still working for our good today. He is still the humble King who came to earth, but His mission will be different when He returns. He’s going to come back and judge sin once and for all and destroy the enemy who has made this world such a broken and painful place.

See, Jesus wasn’t just brave in the past tense. Jesus is brave today.

Jesus knows I’m a screwup, and for that, He gave His life. I am so grateful for that salvation. But over and over again, I ask Jesus for forgiveness and rescue, and He always provides them. You would never buy a car that got a flat tire every time you test-drove it, and you would stop eating at restaurants that repeatedly got your order wrong. And yet Jesus does that for me all the time. I have a flat tire and get His order wrong and sin and everything in between. He takes risks for me, and He takes a risk on me.

He is still the humble King who came to earth, but His mission will be different when He returns.

John 3:16 says it all. God loves you so much that He gave up His own Son so that your sin would not be able to separate you from Him forever. God is holy and we are sinners. But Jesus bridged that gap; His death and resurrection cleared that path.

His resurrection proved that He is God—that He has the power to overcome death and that His forgiveness of our sins was real!

He deeply loves you and deeply knows you and is doing the hard work of forgiving and forgiving and forgiving again and again. Jesus is brave, and He made you to be brave too.

BE BRAVE: Thank Jesus that He takes a risk on you over and over again. Thank Him that the grave did not hold Him down and that He is a risen and living King.