God of the Living

“He is not God of the dead, but of the living...” Luke 20:38

Yesterday I was listening to a talk and was reminded again that Jesus did not leave us the option of believing that He was a great moral teacher, a good man, or an inspiring miracle worker. 

The former agnostic, C.S. Lewis, wrote: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse.”

Then Lewis adds: “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 up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

If we are still not convinced Jesus is God, I believe we should spend a majority of our time and resources in discovering who Jesus is. Imagine! The All powerful God of the Universe breaking through space and time to give us a message that would impact our whole existence, and we would 

miss it? 

This world is becoming more and more secular, more politically correct, more de-Christianized. And as a result, people are more confused, more depressed, and more lost. The world needs God. Psychiatrist J.T. Fisher describes Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount: “For nearly 2,000 years the Christian world has been holding in its hands the complete answer to its restless and fruitless yearnings. Here ... rests the blueprint for successful human life with optimism, mental health, and contentment.”