Learning to See Jesus Christ in the Biblical Text
Posted by Pastor Pat on July 28, 2009
“Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another,
because love covers a multitude of sins.” (1 Peter 4:8)
I have already stated several times how one of my presuppositions in reading the Bible is, “I do not read the Bible to determine how to live, but rather to discovery what He is like.” Does your perspective matter? I believe so. When my life becomes disjointed and I am consumed by the mundane and distracted by the unimportant I have to step back and get my focus back on Christ (Heb. 12:1, 2). It is only when I see the centrality of Jesus Christ that life in all of its little pieces makes any sense (Col. 1:17). In Jesus Christ we have the perfect display and embodiment of grace. Jesus Christ is the proper name for grace.
It is for this reason I will often use the two words as synonyms.
Often as I read my Bible I put the words, “Jesus Christ” and/or “grace” in the place of “love.” For example in our text before us if we changed the words it would read as follows, “Above all, keep fervent in your grace for one another, because grace covers a multitude of sins.”
