Following Jesus Needs to Be Epic

I have ask my son many times over the last few years what his mother and I did that helped him to establish his relationship with God. I know that we took him to church. We read the Bible at home. We prayed together as a family. The answer that he keeps giving me had nothing to do with any of those things not that those things were ineffective. The answer he keeps giving us is that we made Jesus real. I was not sure for the longest time what he meant until recently. I am reading a book called The Way of the Wild Heart by John Eldridge. It is a book about the masculine journey. In the book he talks about that boys need to see something as epic to really get excited about it and committed to it. When I looked up epic it means bigger than life. Boys, actually people need something bigger than life, bigger than their lives to give themselves to. I realize that by surrendering my life to Jesus and living out that surrender with passion I without knowing it showed my son that Jesus was real. He was epic. I know that I will never be famous. They will never make a movie of my life or write a book about my life. I will never have a street or school named after me. I will never pastor a "mega" church. But by surrendering me life to Jesus as my King and attempting to live that surrender out wih passion I have touched the life of my son. He in turn is touching the lives of young men and women as a student pastor and with his own kids.
The word most used in the New Testament for life is zoe. It means a life that is full, abundat. A life full of real living not just existing. That life comes through and in Jesus. That is the kind of life God created us for. That is the kind of life that Jesus showed us in His earthly life. That is the kind of life Jesus died to give us. That is the kind of life I want to past on to my son and my grandchildren.
Life doesn't have to be full of material wealth, high human position, or great popularity to be epic. Life has to be filled with Jesus to be epic.

Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls
                            Joe