As born-again believers we need to have a high view of the divine inspiration of scripture, as high as Jesus’ view was. But our ultimate preoccupation should not be with the scripture itself but with the Christ to whom the scriptures point us to.

Church history has always shown the same thing. Once the high view of scripture has been abandoned by any group, any denomination, any church the downhill slide of it’s theology and practice into worldliness, compromise and error is inevitable.

Hebrews 4:13 tells us - "And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account." God is the God of the unexpected, at least from our perspective. God is near and far at the same time and encourages us to never be afraid of the unexpected because so often it's how He grows us and at the centre of any unexpected moment we find Jesus is there with us.

Jesus came to identify himself with us so that we may have a new identity with him. We can identify with him reversing the 'Who told you' from Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. If we truly know who we are following, who we belong to then the how of denying ourselves and losing our lives can be trustingly be placed in His hands. Jesus Christ is our Who.