Who is Jesus? He is God.

By Lynn Jarman

LYNN JARMAN LIVES WITH HER HUSBAND JIM IN STOCKHOLM. THEY ARE MULTIPLICATION CATALYSTS FOR CHURCH PLANTING.

PHOTOGRAPHER JIM JARMAN

I love walking. I prefer to walk outside when the sun is shining, the air crisp and the sky blue. But I’ll also walk when it’s cloudy and raining. I’ll walk in the city and I’ll hike in the countryside.

During the recent pandemic, I’ve walked all over the world and never left my Stockholm apartment as I walk in place to YouTube videos. My daughter once bought me a Fitbit as a gift. She wanted us both to track the steps we walk each day and share the experience together on the Fitbit app. But after a while, she said, “Mom, stop walking so much! You always have twice the number of steps that I do each day!”

Even more than physical walking, I love walking with Jesus – spending time daily with Him, acknowledging His presence with me during every step of my day.

My heart’s desire for you is that you would walk every day with Jesus as well. Why don’t we share the experience together? That is the purpose of this regular column in Junia magazine.

In order to walk daily with Jesus, we first need a clear understanding of who Jesus is and who He claims to be. There are so many descriptive words that the Bible uses to describe Jesus and we will take a look in this column at a number of them. Jesus is the Savior, the Lord, the Redeemer. He is the Healer, the Restorer, the King.

As we look at these descriptions and others, I will personalize them for myself and I hope you do the same. Jesus is my Savior. Jesus is my Lord. And so forth. But before I can personalize Jesus in my life, I need to clearly know who He is in the eternal realm as part of the triune God. And the Bible declares that Jesus himself is God.

In the Gospel of Matthew, we have the account of Joseph being unsure about taking Mary to be his wife because she had become pregnant. He knew he wasn’t the father, and this troubled him greatly. An angel appeared to him in a dream and told him not to be afraid; Mary was pregnant by the Holy Spirit. He was to marry her and name his new son Jesus and all the people would call this child “Immanuel” which means “God with us.” God was coming from the eternal realm into the very world he created. He was coming to walk with us.

Today, as we journey together with Jesus, let’s reflect on the fact that we are hand in hand with God himself and he is actually walking with us. No matter what difficulties we face, or what obstacles are in front of us, we have God by our side. Immanuel is right here. There is nothing in the world that is better than that. Do not be afraid, dear friends. God is with you.