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Just A Thought: Searching For Jesus

October 27, 2019 0 comments

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 “This is how much God loved the world: He gave His son so that no one need be destroyed;  by believing in Him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life.”

                                                                                                     John 3:16 MSG

 

The questions we like to ask about God are endless: “Is God real?”  “Is what we know about Him really true?” and  “What does He have to do with my life?” to list just a few.  The Bible may not answer every question about God - but one of the areas the Bible is quite definite is the answer to the question: who is Jesus?  Jesus commends the Apostle Peter’s confession of Him as “the Messiah, the Son of the Living God” (Matthew 16:16), because Jesus knew that who He is - and could be to us - has the power to change our lives.  Jesus is so unique because two worlds collide in Him: heaven and earth, the divine and the human.

C.S. Lewis, wrote, “Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.  You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher.  He has not left that open to us.  He did not intend to.”   Yes, Jesus’ name is the name above all names, and His star-breathing, storm-calming, miracle-working power is second to none.  Yet, He is also the human Jesus, the personal friend who knows what we are going through and cares about us. That’s why the Bible calls Him “Immanuel”, God with us.

The big question is, does Jesus care about you?  Yes, He does!  Isn’t that mind blowing?  The God who created it all cares about you.  Often we disqualify ourselves from God’s love because of our history, our failures and our shortcomings. Sin has separated us from God and we can never make up for our sin by self-improvement or good works.  So how can we accept what we have not earned? 

To accept God’s love is to trust His patient, forgiving and gracious stance towards us.  To be made whole, or to be saved, is to submit to God’s plan and purpose for our lives.  It is a turning from our ways and turning to Jesus, to ask Him for forgiveness from our sins and to give us new life in Him.  Romans 10:9 says: “If you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”  Salvation is God’s free gift to us.  Only He has the power to free us from guilt, shame and condemnation, to give us a life of wholeness.  All we have to do is turn to Him.

 

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