Beautiful Paradox

To understand Jesus we must embrace the unfathomable

I have little use for "healthy balance."

Leaning into paradoxes is a better way to live.

It is good to both work hard, yet rest deeply. It is good to grasp love with all one's strength, yet hold it with an open hand. It is good to live self-discipline, yet experience complete freedom. It is good to relentlessly seek your heart's desire, yet find complete satisfaction and peace in the moment.

Jesus too had little use for paradoxes.

He was fully God and fully man. The king of creation and the servant of all. He is the lion, he is the lamb. He is completely separate from Father, and yet completely one entity with God.

Thinking of Jesus in the terms of "healthy balance" does who he is a disservice.

Consider again the idea that he fully God, yet fully man. We don't understand this. Can't understand it really. So we start to imagine Jesus as somewhere in the middle. As part God, yet part man.

This isn't good. It takes away from what he did.

As God he did what a perfect god could not, and suffered the sinful death of man.

As a man he did what a sinful man could not, and rose from the dead.

There was no healthy balance. No in between. He embodied both of his natures completely without conflict.

To being to understand the nature of God I believe that we must begin to grasp at two opposing ideas at once.