Jesus Flake
While getting my tires checked today I met a Jesus flake. Actually, I had met him before but today he was wearing a pin with little snowflakes all around the edge that said, “I’m a Jesus Flake.”
I can be a pretty pesky Christian about doctrine and so I was curious about what he was trying to say. There are no shy bones in my body so I asked him, “Jesus Flake? I’ve heard of a Jesus freak but never a Jesus Flake, what’s that about?” I got the impression that he was pleased to be asked!
He explained that he couldn’t sleep one night and he kept recalling making snowmen when he was a child. His mind just wouldn’t rest and he felt that God wanted him to get up and write a story — one that he promised to read to me when he finished with my tires. And oh-by-the-way that story prompted him to have the “I’m a Jesus Flake” pins made and he would give me one before I go. O.K., now I’m really curious!
He finished his work and went into his office and came out with a few handwritten pages (on the kind of long skinny paper I use to write grocery lists – exactly the kind that would be readily available at 3am). The title was “The Body of Christ.” Now I’m even more curious as he starts to talk about how a rolling stone gathers no moss but how that is not true about rolling snowballs that are made from millions – even billions – of individual snowflakes of which no two are alike. Each one is required to build the body of the snowman and he says they are like Velcro as they stick to each other. The story continued with how when he was a child he would sometimes use all the snow in his yard for the bottom part of the body and then go into the neighbor’s yard to gather more snowflakes to roll into the rest of the snowman. He talked about how the primary makeup of each flake was water (Living Water) and how they reflect the light of the sun (Light of the Son). And that, after a time, when the sun (Son) would shine on them they would, each one, be transformed into a new form, (Living) water.
When this Jesus flake started to talk to me I don’t know if he knew I was a Christian. He was quick to tell me that there had been a time when he doubted God’s Word but that then he was born again and he knows that God has inspired it and it is true. By the end of our conversation it was apparent to both of us that we had been rolled into the same Body – the Body of Christ. His Creator is rolling that flake around in His yard building His Body. I was already stuck to the same snowball but the next customer to ask about his pin may not be – I’ll bet he will be before he leaves – or at least he’ll have seen the Light reflected from the Flake checking his tires.
Though I’m a Jesus Flake, too, you might not see me with a pin on. I might ask you “have you come to the place in your spiritual life where you know for sure that when you die you’re going to heaven or would you say that’s something that you’re still working on” because I went through the Evangelism Explosion Class last year. That’s the tool that God has given me. He’s given my tire-checking brother the “Jesus Flake” tool.
Every individual flake in the body has been given the command to go and make disciples. The “Flake” I met today was no fake. He was boldly proclaiming the Name of Jesus. He made me happy to be part of the same Body.