Jesus, Mean and Wild??

"As Jesus draws near, so rises the storm. The reasons for the increasing storm are many. When Jesus draws near, he draws near as Lord, and he implicitly challenges all other lords. These lords - greed, lust, ambition, pride, and so forth - do not care to be toppled from their pedestals, and during a crisis, when their lordship is challenged, they will demand even greater devotion. This, in turn, only aggravates our dis-ease, and we sink deeper than ever into loneliness, guilt, shame, and despair. The closer Jesus gets, the more violent the storm within. It gets to the point that either we must die or Jesus must die, and our souls fight ferociously for self-preservation." ~ Mark Galli