The Name of Jesus
JESUS!
This is the holiest name of all! This is the name the drives out demons and cures illness. This is the name of the one who bought our redemption and a chance at salvation, all at the cost of his own life. But this life was not ended. Instead he defeated death and resurrected, making manifest what is to become of our own bodies and just how sacred they are!
But I sit and wonder how people are able to use such a name as an expletive. And I am baffled all the more at how one can even type it as such! Each time I read an email, blog, etc., where the person says, out of disgust, “Jesus Christ!” I sit baffled and saddened, as if the person is taking the name of our Savior, the second Person of the Trinity, and rubbing dirt all over it. Aren’t expletives meant to be dirty words used to express disgust or anger, or even to reference to “dirty” aspects of life? If this is so, how can we lower the name of our Savior, the Word made flesh, so much? Would that not be a contradiction to the Second Commandment?
I may be preaching to the choir here. Nonetheless, we have an obligation to evangelize and stand up for the name of Christ, our model. We all bear his name in calling ourselves Christian. How would you like your own personal name lowered to dirt?
Blessed be the name of Jesus!
This is the holiest name of all! This is the name the drives out demons and cures illness. This is the name of the one who bought our redemption and a chance at salvation, all at the cost of his own life. But this life was not ended. Instead he defeated death and resurrected, making manifest what is to become of our own bodies and just how sacred they are!
But I sit and wonder how people are able to use such a name as an expletive. And I am baffled all the more at how one can even type it as such! Each time I read an email, blog, etc., where the person says, out of disgust, “Jesus Christ!” I sit baffled and saddened, as if the person is taking the name of our Savior, the second Person of the Trinity, and rubbing dirt all over it. Aren’t expletives meant to be dirty words used to express disgust or anger, or even to reference to “dirty” aspects of life? If this is so, how can we lower the name of our Savior, the Word made flesh, so much? Would that not be a contradiction to the Second Commandment?
I may be preaching to the choir here. Nonetheless, we have an obligation to evangelize and stand up for the name of Christ, our model. We all bear his name in calling ourselves Christian. How would you like your own personal name lowered to dirt?
Blessed be the name of Jesus!
posted by Scott the Seminarian at 7:43 AM
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