As we turn to thinking about God, where do we begin?  We start with Jesus.  Through him, the one true God makes himself known.  But throughout history, there have been many great thinkers who have created great systems of thought.  Can we simply ignore what has been said so profoundly? 

Can we not, at least, begin with these great systems of thought and fit Jesus in to make them even better?  

We must take  Jesus seriously as THE TRUTH.  We cannot simply adjust the systems of thought we already have and try to fit him in. No! We have to start from scratch and build everything around Jesus.  Whenever we try to contain Jesus within one of our systems of thought we end up with a fake Jesus.

We are always going to be faced with systems of thought that seem true and are difficult to question. Yet, when we try to fit the LORD Jesus into any system of thought we will lose Jesus. We will be left with a shadow.  But don’t we do this, even as Christ-followers?   Don’t we try to fit Jesus into what we already believe about God and the world?  Do we make Jesus the starting point and test everything else by Him?  What is the test of truth in our minds? How do we know what is true?  Is Jesus our standard of truth or do we make him submit to other standards of truth? We must take Jesus seriously as the truth by seeing as him the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of all we believe.