No One Could Know

“You’re the bomb, Babe.”

I don’t know how that phrase ever became en vogue, but I sure like its meaning. You’ve felt that way about someone who’s come along and exploded your heart, haven’t you?

Scott and I are not really the matchy-matchy couple type, but every once in awhile we accidentally really coordinate…and I like it. When we were dating way back in 1989, he bought me a “bomber jacket” for Christmas that matched his. It was a grand gesture. I felt like together we were “the bomb.” I wore the beatiful brown leather, crop-waisted coat proudly and was saddened when its double stuffed shoulder pads went out of style.

Here we are 24 years into our marriage, still blending our tastes and interests…most of the time successfully! For all our polar differences, we have all the important things in common. Our marriage works because we operate in Biblical principals of love and respect.

But, when you have an outspoken, opinionated man with a gregarious, demonstrative wife, conversations can sometimes become explosive. I used to have the idea that whenever Jesus opened his mouth, it was always in tender tones, and birds harmonizing His words in peaceful blue skies above Him. But in getting to know Jesus through the Bible, I see a passionate man.

Jesus didn’t mince words with the religious opposition – he even went as far as to call them names! (Matthew 23) He’s passionate. And, I never could have  imagined my Sunday School Jesus throwing things, but when He threw over the money changers’ tables in the synagogue, I saw a different side of Him. (Matthew 21) Indeed, He’s passionate. But when He was taken to be barbarically executed for nothing He did wrong, He kept His mouth shut…because He was passionate about the outcome, knowing that truth – and life – would prevail.

I want to be passionate about everything He is passionate about. I want my tastes and interests to align with His. I want to “be the bomb” when Jesus “is the bomb.”

But that seems a lot easier than being silent when He’s silent.

He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted in the earth.” – Psalm 46:10

I’m just still blending my tastes and interests with His and am determined to be still. I’m determined to know that He is God. And I’m determined to have Him be exalted in the earth, and together “be the bomb.”