our [my] Lord

Boy oh boy do I gloss over those two little words in the creed. Jesus Christ is God's only Son, our Lord. So what exactly does it mean to that Jesus is our (read from here on out "my") Lord? For all intents and purposes it means that I have changed my allegiance. I once was a slave to sin but now am a servant of Christ (who was himself a servant). Giving Jesus the honor due his Lordship is not merely a matter of bended knee or saying the right collect at the right time, but total commitment to him and the life to which he calls me. I have spent much of the evening in a debate with some classmates over human sexuality while Cassie is reading a Dallas Willard devotional. Occasionally she'll blurt out a phrase or sentence which really resonates with her, and that is the basis of my post tonight.

Willard, talking about the lack of disciplined discipleship in churches offers the following insight into Jesus' Lordship

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have yet decided to follow Christ. Little good results form insisting that Christ is also supposed to be Lord: to present his lordship as an option leaves it squarely in the category of the white-wall tires and stereo equipment for the new car. You can do without it. And it is - alas! - far from clear what you would do with it. Obedience and training in obedience [to Christ] form no intelligible doctrinal or practical unity with the salvation presented in recent [read liberal] versions of the gospel. - excerpt from The Spirit of the Disciplines.

So my thought is this, Jesus is my Lord and as it is part of the creed which makes up the baptismal covenant that my parents made for me as an infant, that I made personal at confirmation, and I reaffirm at Easter it is not optional like white-wall tires and stereo equipment (sorry for the old metaphor). I figure out what it means to have Jesus as my Lord, and maybe we (the body of Christ) should figure out what it means to have Jesus as our Lord.