I've never heard anyone say they suffer from Christological attention deficit syndrome.

But if you were listening yesterday, you may be sure my suspicion that many of us who

are Christians actually have it.

We find it difficult to reflect on the Lord Jesus for even a few minutes at a time.

I think if we were honest about it, we'd probably be willing to admit that one reason for this

is that many of us don't actually know enough about the Lord Jesus to sustain prolonged meditation.

So, in minds that are often full of unconnected and disconnected pieces of information,

and in a world of many voices, what we really need is for our minds to be better stocked with

the knowledge of Christ, who He is and what He has done. And that process of stocking up knowledge

and retaining it is always helped by having structures in our thinking, foundation stones we can

build on. I remember a lady telling me very sweetly and meaning to encourage me that she had

listened five times to a recording of a sermon I'd preached and every time she said she learned

something new. So I thanked her for her encouragement and I meant it. But I also thought to myself,

you know, I think if she had known something like the shorter cataclysm, she probably could have

taken all that in by listening perhaps only twice. The problem was not that she wasn't a keen Christian.

It was that she didn't really have what I think of as the velcro strips of basic Christian doctrine.

So in a sense that was nowhere for most of the message to stick. So here's a first velcro strip

to help us grow in our ability to reflect on the Lord Jesus Christ. He's a divine person.

I think if we focus on that fact, we might be amazed at how just like a pebble thrown into a pool,

ripels of reflection might be created in our minds from scripture. And before we know it, we begin

to reflect on him in wonder and worship. Think for example about the dramatic way he's introduced

in the first chapter of the gospel of John. He is the word. It's interesting, isn't it, that John

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