A savior, not a coach

Salgoud offers insights into why Christians continue to try to shape Jesus in our own image. The temptation, he says, comes from the deep-down effort to save ourselves:

We do not need the self help Jesus for we cannot possibly help ourselves. We need the savior. The reach over the rail of the ship and catch me from the waves savior. The run through the flames and snatch me from the burning building savior. The step out into the firefight to pull you to safety savior.

And after he's taught us who God is, and humbled us because we are not that and cannot hope to be, he goes to the cross and saves us.

And only then can we be transformed into that which was impossible before and only because he makes up the difference. He bridges the gulf and now we are free to acheive that which had been impossible before.

Amen and amen. And thanks to Keith Brenton for the link.