Reflecting on Wild Jesus!
Ruth Kennedy 
April 30, 2024
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Reflecting on Wild Jesus!
This months theme, Wild Jesus, has been all about Jesus giving us the opportunity to discover and rediscover the wildness of Jesus, His untamed, unchainedness from any worldly ways or expectations. He goes far beyond our hopes or imaginations, wildly beyond our dreams and expectations, this is Jesus! And we can find and experience wild Jesus in the mountains and streets, beach and breakfast table, in every place of life. Dangerous to conventions and tender to hearts.
A favourite song of mine is by John Thurlow called ‘Jesus, You’re Beautiful’. In it we sing about the eyes of Jesus being like flames of fire, His hair as white as wool and His voice sounding like waters There is no one like Jesus, in the heavens nor on the earth.
This might not be the first time you have read or heard Jesus described like this as it’s straight out the Bible (Revelation 1:14-15)! It is incredible, isn’t it?!
However, this might be the first time you thought about Jesus like this, we have all read these words for the first time at some point!
Let’s all go to that moment where we uncover these words about Jesus and pause for a moment:
The eyes of Jesus are like flames of fire.
What does this evoke in you?
Intensity? Power? It grips me in my spirit, like a hand of fire grasping that which is in the inner core of me. Not burning me, but giving me the fire. When we look at Jesus, we become more like Jesus and that includes the fire of God. Wherever we are on our adventure of faith, starting out or years in, we all need and long for that fire of God, the passion, the fuel which powers us on into loving God and good works that show His love and grace.
His hair is as white as wool.
Timeless? Ancient of days? Wise? White hair apparently comes with wisdom, as well as age! Jesus is the giver of eternal life because He is eternal, He has always been, always existed and always will. There is no ageing in Jesus the way we do. And also, what a wonderful insight that white hair and older age are valued. When that is what we are crowned with, it is a good thing, a blessing.
There is a purity in the blessing of God just as this depiction infers; no stain of sin for that is who Jesus was and is. On earth, He lived a perfect, sinless life and Jesus is perfect. I’m not suggesting all people with white hair are perfect! Rather, there is a purity in Jesus which we are drawn to the more we look at Him.
His voice sounds like waters.
Loud? Quiet? Crashing? Continual? Refreshing? I feel His words lapping over me as the warm waters do when you sit in the sea. There is movement meaning the water isn’t stagnant and stale. It brings life. Let the words of Jesus wash over you today, I guarantee just one drop of this water transforms your life. Be thirsty for it, be thirsty for Jesus.
Jesus says ‘I’ve loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves at home in my love. If you keep my commands, you’ll remain intimately at home in my love. That’s what I’ve done – kept my Father’s commands and made myself at home in his love.’ John 15: 9-10.
Make your home in the love of Wild Jesus.
Rev Ruth Kennedy, Minister of Sanctuary First
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